The earliest fully documented case of aortic dissection is attributed to Frank Nicholls in his autopsy report of King George II of Great Britain, who had been found dead on 25 October 1760; the report describes dissection of the aortic arch and into the pericardium.
In 1893, African American surgeon Daniel Hale Williams would be the first on record to mimic Dalton's success and repaired the torn pericardium of a knife wound patient, James Cornish.
Kidney is very narrowly triangular, being wider at the base, tapering anteriorly, slightly longer than the pericardium.