Abdominal paracentesis : a casualty of reductionist medical therapeutics / Barron H. Lerner.
Abstract:
"I will begin this paper with an in-depth examination of paracentesis at one particular institution, New York City's Presbyterian Hospital, between 1906 and 1912. I will then analyze why paracentesis so dramatically fell out of favor after 1950."
Bulletin of the history of medicine Vol. 67 (1993), p. 439-462