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MEIGS, Charles Delucena (1792 – 1869)

MEIGS, Charles Delucena (1792 – 1869)

1792 – 1869

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Engraving by Welch & Walter from a daguerreotype by M.P. Simons · Images from the History of Medicine Published in Medical Portrait Gallery (c. 1846), Philadelphia: V.F. Harrison, Vol. 1, OCLC 6172847. · Public domain

1849 CE

#6177

The heart-clot.

Meigs drew attention to embolism as a cause of sudden death in childbed. Previously such deaths had been attributed to syncope.