He was the first to study and describe the mediastinum, correcting the error of the ancients, who believed that this duplicature of the pleura contained a portion of the lungs.
"Fathers of Biology"
Charles McRae
Logical and progressive conclusions drawn from experience, and based upon the local enlargement which the physicians previously consulted have apparently failed to perceive, lead me to diagnose the presence of a tumour in the mediastinum, extending its claws into the lungs, and seriously impeding their action and the action of the heart.
"The Dop Doctor"
Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
If an abscess forms, it may come to the surface in the lower part of the posterior triangle, or may spread into the posterior mediastinum or into the axilla.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson