WHY HISTORY BOOKS LIE AND SAY THAT Dr. Daniel Hale Williams in 1893? Heart Surgery (first successful)?

Question

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams in 1893? No!
Dr. Williams repaired a wound not in the heart muscle itself, but in the sac surrounding it, the pericardium. This operation was not the first of its type: Henry Dalton of St. Louis performed a nearly identical operation two years earlier, with the patient fully recovering. Decades before that, the Spaniard Francisco Romero carried out the first successful pericardial surgery of any type, incising the pericardium to drain fluid compressing the heart.

Surgery on the actual human heart muscle, and not just the pericardium, was first successfully accomplished by Ludwig Rehn of Germany when he repaired a wounded right ventricle in 1896. More than 50 years later came surgery on the open heart, pioneered by John Lewis, C. Walton Lillehei (often called the "father of open heart surgery") and John Gibbon (who invented the heart-lung machine).

Answer 1

The outside the pericardium vs. inside the pericadium argument seems kind of pendantic to me. It's like the Marconi vs. Telsa argument-of great interest to specialists in the subject, but laymen can live with Marconi as the inventor of radio.

Answer 2

What are you doing, just going around slamming history books for what YOU think are mistakes?

You have now listed several questions in a row that are all along the lines of :
Why do (they/people/historybooks) lie and say so-and-so (invent/was the first) to (create/do) such-andsuch?

Daniel Hale Williams was the first BLACK Doctor to perform successful open heart surgery.

Dalton's and the Spaniards operation was not "Open Heart" but through a small incision.

So no one performed it earlier than him. Your only point to stand on is whether the pericardium counts as heart surgury. and as the other answer pointed out it is rather a pedantic arguement. Most people will agree that any operation regarding the Heart and it's attendent structures (which the Pericardium IS) counts as heart surgury. NOT just the heart muscle alone.

Thats like saying "I didn't have my car's engine worked on. I just replaced the head gasket" (Which is part of the engine)

Answer 3

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