THE OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF PERICARDIAL EFFUSIONS.
BY JOHN B. ROBERTS, A.M., M.D.
The operative treatment of pericardial exudations and transudations has received a new impetus within the last fifteen or twenty years from the investigations of Trousseau,1 Roberts,2 Hindenlang,3 Fiedler,4 West,5 and others. Reference to the works of these writers will furnish the reader with the history and statistics of such operations, and with those details that I have not deemed necessary to incorporate in the present article.
1 Clinical Medicine.
2 New York Med. Journ., Dec., 1876, with analysis of 41 cases; also Paracentesis of the Pericardium, Philada., 1880; Trans. Am. Med. Ass'n, 1880; and elsewhere.
3 Deutsches Archiv für klinische Medicin, 1879.
4 Samml. klin. Vortr., No. 215, Leipzig, 1882.