Word: pericardium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago Mrs. Bramy. wife of a dress peddler, mother of four, went to Dr. Brown, complaining of pain in her chest. He decided that a general infection had inflamed the thin sac called the pericardium which contains the heart and caused it to adhere to Mrs. Bramy's breast bone. Surgeon Brown excised a section of the woman's sternum and ribs together with enough rib gristle to enable him to reach into her chest and free the pericardium from its adhesions. At the same time he removed a tiny bit of pericardial tissue...
...three years Mrs. Bramy was able to look after her family. Then, to relieve her hardening heart, Surgeons Brunn & Brown were obliged to remove a rigid 2-by-3 in. section from her calcifying pericardium. That type of operation was rare. Rarer was the patient's survival in comfort for another two years...
Fortnight ago, in an operation whose consequences were pneumonia and death last week. Surgeons Brunn & Brown removed still more of the stone wall around Mrs. Bramy's heart. At her autopsy the remainder of her pericardium was found to be solid marble, ⅛ to ½ in. thick...
Sugar-coated Hearts. The heart itself is contained in a double sack, or pericardium. The inner sack fits snugly against the heart. The outer sack is just big enough to let the heart expand comfortably. Often enough to concern doctors the sacks become inflamed, from pneumonia, rheumatic fever and other infectious diseases. The sacks may stick together. Or the outer sack may adhere to the inside of the chest wall or to the upper side of the diaphragm. Or fibrous bands may develop and constrict the heart. During early pericardiac inflammation, Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner of Cornell University pumps...
Heart "Brake." Long has the pericardium, a fibroserous, inelastic membrane which surrounds the heart, been a puzzle to physiologists. Its function has been discovered by George Crisler and Edward Jerald Van Liere of the University of West Virginia. The inelastic sac acts as a brake, keeps the heart, the muscular control of which, is not sufficient to prevent undue dilation, from going out of bounds, breaking...