BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, 10th July, 1893, Williams Hale Daniel repaired the torn pericardium of a knife wound patient, James Cornish. Cornish, who was stabbed directly through the left fifth costal cartilage, had been admitted the previous night and Williams made the decision to operate the next morning in response to continued bleeding, cough, and […]
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