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On the occurrence of pleural effusion in association with disease of the abdomen.

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Med.-chir. Trans., 75, 109-18. 1892 CE.

Lawson Tait was apparently the first to describe what is now known as Meigs’s syndrome (ovarian fibroma combined with pleural effusion).

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