Dr Henry C. Dalton was professor of abdominal and clinical Surgery Surgery is the medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative manual and instrumental treatment. Its practitioners are referred to as surgeons. History of surgery Although surgeons are now considered to be specialised physicians, the profession of surgeon and that of physician have different historical roots. For example... surgery at Marion Sims College of Medicine, now part of the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL, Wash. U.) is a private research university 15 minutes west of downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It includes schools of arts & sciences, law, business, medicine, social work, art, architecture, and engineering. In the 2004 U.S. News & World Report rankings, its undergraduate program... School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL, Wash. U.) is a private research university 15 minutes west of downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It includes schools of arts & sciences, law, business, medicine, social work, art, architecture, and engineering. In the 2004 U.S. News & World Report rankings, its undergraduate program... Washington University in St. Louis. He is noted for performing the first Sutures are the stitches doctors, and especially surgeons, use to hold skin, organs, blood vessels and all other tissues of the human body together, after they have been severed in minor or major surgery. Sutures are designed to help the healing of the body by closely opposing the two sides... suturing of the The pericardium is a double-walled sac that contains the heart and the roots of the great vessels. There are three layers to this sac: the fibrous pericardium, serous pericardium, and the pericardial cavity. The fibrous pericardium is the most superficial layer. It is a dense connective tissue layer which... pericardium on record. The operation occurred on September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). There are 116 days remaining. Events 3761 BC - The first day of the Hebrew Calendar. 394 - Battle of Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish general Arbogast... September 6, 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). Events January 1 - Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany January 20 - James Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state. January 29 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii March 3 - The International Copyright... 1891 at the City Hospital in The Gateway Arch, shown here behind the Old Courthouse, is the most recognizable part of the St. Louis skyline. Apotheosis of Saint Louis, a bronze statue of the citys namesake on horseback, was widely used as a symbol of the city before construction of the Arch. For other uses... St. Louis, on a twenty-two-year-old man who had been stabbed in the chest. Upon arrival of the patient, Dalton cleaned the wound and applied a dressing of antiseptic gauze. After several hours, the patient's condition worsened: the left side of his chest became dull to percussion; his temperature and pulse rate rose; his breathing became shallow; and he complained of considerable pain. He was taken to the surgical amphitheatre, where Dalton made an incision over the fourth rib and removed about six inches of it. After tying the severed intercostal artery to control bleeding and removing the blood from the In anatomy, the pleural cavity is the potential space between the lungs and the chest wall. It has virtually nothing in it in the normal non-diseased state, except a small amount of pleural fluid. The cavity is lined by specialized epithelium called pleura. The pleura that is connected to... pleural cavity, Dalton observed a transverse wound of the pericardium about two inches in length. With a sharply curved needle and Catgut, the name applied to cord of great toughness and tenacity prepared from the intestines of sheep, or occasionally from those of the horse, mule and ass. Those of the cat are not employed, and therefore it is supposed that the word is properly kitgut, kit meaning fiddle, and that... catgut, he closed the wound by continuous Sutures are the stitches doctors, and especially surgeons, use to hold skin, organs, blood vessels and all other tissues of the human body together, after they have been severed in minor or major surgery. Sutures are designed to help the healing of the body by closely opposing the two sides... suture, overcoming great difficulty caused by the This page is about the muscular organ, the Heart. For other meanings of the word, see Heart (disambiguation). The heart and lungs (from an older edition of Grays Anatomy) The heart (Latin cor) is a hollow, muscular organ that pumps blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions... heart pulsations. The pleural cavity was then irrigated and the chest incision closed without drainage. The patient made "an uninterrupted, rapid recovery." The published report of the operation appeared in the state medical association's journal and another local periodical in 1894, and in the Annals of Surgery the following year.

Reference

• Henry C. Dalton. Report of a case of stab wound of the pericardium, terminating in recovery after resection of a rib and suture of the pericardium. Annals of Surgery 1895, 21:147-152

• Harris B. Shumacker, Jr. Evolution of Cardiac Surgery. Bloomington, Indiana: University Press, 1992