Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-11-18


was altogether different from what most
Of them had confidently declared it to be.
is it to be wondered that laymcn should
feel themselves justified in critciziug
them
The truth is that since they publish
ed their cwn account Of the autopsy i.
has been too late for the attending sur
geons TO reply to ne Iical critics that
they knew nothing Of the case, or to lay
critics that they know nothing Of surge
~; the attending SUI geons. though they
made very brief and unsatiSfac' DRY re
port of the autopsy. wore compelled ~
acknowledge tllt they kneH extremely
little abort the case they hal treated,
and were most wrong where they. or At
least some Of them, were most certain
During the weak after tic shooting
while the attending surgeons were insist
Ing that the Presidents liver was wound
cd, there were surgeon. in New York.
who insisted that tho liver could not b,
woun led. AMI that the ball must be
lodged in the thick tissues near the
spine. That the first part of this opinion
was correct, the Attending surgeons
came after awhile to admit; that the last
part wa substantially c,rrect, the an
topsy shovel; yet this guessing, if it
were guessing, WIS lie by surgeons
in New York wio had not Sc n the case.
During the latter part Of July d.. liam
mond stated that the patient was suffer
ing from chronic pyw MA; the Attending
surgeons stoutly denied this, AMI those
who pinned their faith to them were OK
tremelv inli IN, mt at tie cx-surgcon
general; the autopsy shows thai he was
in all probability, exactly right DR..
Boynton has also m,in.ainci that the
patient was the victim Of pye MIA, an
latterly t'i,t there was an ab ,c,s3 on III.
lungs. The oaioial report Of tao autop
sy corroborated the form p opinion, an
the later was correct according to the
unoiioiA report.
DR. BeckUirh, of Cleveland, who
was present during Ia, first day, in
consultation says that eliot of blood
was detected b low the liver AMI that il
was courting death to lolya this to pu
trfy, when it coull easily have been
witt ali a'P;rd.ot Ii his let
ter to the NV Y1tk UaEcd Times,
this surg,oa says the ''bl1ol-clo: incrcas
ed in siz1 aud pco n'nanc,, an MT ua
til { 7. NJ, when Mrs. Garfield reach
ed his 81 e. was there any evidence Of
From t'lcn until S.3J |
nave no personal knoEle lge Of the clso.
At thlt hour return 4, fpunl the
'nlsc less frequent an stronger, hi,
DIOR slightly returning II rem ,rk d I
M: The doctors say ia, bleeding
= ceased. but how IN ever ret ria
this bloo i-cIo.?" | replied: This
Z nsA r%'ts 'vs'a - ANIL y, suss Went satss
'e s"as"i'ins roe" anl requested taat
Q m>re mprphia be given, but if mar |
osies were required, use solid on;nn
With carbonate Of ammonia. also ro-
luested that the blool -co,gula be re-
moved By an inspirator. Here INV sur.
s'eaI Interference began and end -
II needs no medical surgical or education
to teach any man pf orlin ry capacity
that blo,l-clot left to m,rtify. as +,
certainly would, must necessarily pro-
tuce blood poisoning. This alone wa,
enough to have caused death without
the mistake of the surgeons in treating
Pus barrow for the channel Of the wound
They would not drain tie pus OF from
the wound itself and nlture in
its efforts at relief formed this barrov
which for weeks they treated as the
wound itself, which WIS in an opposite
direction. 81 far as their Treatment of
HE wound its If WIS conscrnc they
might just as well have p"ultic.d the
Presidents Big toe.
The October number of the .Nclical
retrospect Published in Washington re-
Jews with great ability tae whole case
nd brings much evidence to show The I
aules ,ree.sa at from the beginuias Il |
hows that not until late ia the evening.
1t half past eight o'clock was any exam
nation of the wound permitted BY DR.
Bliss, when DR.. Wales made a diy,tl
discovered the fracture Of
he ribs and that the wound was full of
bone spliuters. The Retrospect saws
hat Dr. Wales adds in connection with
lis description of his disital ex un;na-
ion: 1.-The information NV obtainsl 7
or the first tims WAS sufficient to indi- +
ate the first step Of the treatment, viz:
of the wound and removal
t the fragments when the finger might
e used safely aud the exact course of
ne ball deterMined"-which was never
one That this enlargement Of the