The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 168
156 DRUMMOND, CALCAREOUS DISEASE OF HEART. On removing the contents of the mediastinum, which were very firmly attached behind (spine), to the right (lung), and below (diaphragm), the hard mass filling its lower two-thirds was recognized to be the heart with its pericardial sac adherent. The whole,… … The position occupied by the heart in the body was somewhat un- usual. It lay almost horizontal, the level of the apex being very slightly
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