1872 BÄUMLER, Christian Gottfried Heinrich (1836 – 1933)

Cases of partial and general idiopathic pericarditis.

Pericarditis epistenocardiaca described.

GMN 2772 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4713

1895 BROADBENT, Walter (1868 – 1951)

An unpublished physical sign.

“Broadbent’s sign” – recession of the intercostal spaces as a sign of adherent pericardium.

GMN 2800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3424

1896 EWART, William (1848 – 1929)

Practical aids in the diagnosis of pericardial effusion, in connection with the question as to surgical treatment.

Pulmonary collapse at the left base in pericardial effusion – “Ewart’s sign”.

GMN 2802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3427

1897 BROADBENT, Sir William Henry (1835 – 1907); BROADBENT, Sir John Francis Harpin (1865 – 1946)

Heart disease.

Chapter 17 includes J. Broadbent’s classic description of adherent pericardium. See Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 712-15, for reproduction of part of this chapter.

GMN 2805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3442