Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-09-27
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Particulars OF THE PosT MoRTEM EX-
ANIMATION OF THE PRESIDENTS BODY
The FUNERAL SERvicEs-REvIEw-
ING THE REMAINs-TuE FUNERAL
TRAIN.
ELBERoS, y. j., Sept. 2l.-The fol !.
lowing official bulletin was prepared at
III O'Clock by the surgeons who had been
in attendance upon the late President:
by previous arrangements the post
norton examination of the body of
President Garefield was made this after
noon, in the presence and with the as
sistance Of Drs. Hamilton, Agnew,
Bliss, Barnes, Woodward, Reyburn,
Andrew II. Smith, of Elberon, and
Acting Assistant Surgeon Lamb Of the
Army Medical Museum, Washington.
The operation was performed by DR..
Lamb. Ii was found that the ball, af-
ter fracturing the right eleventh rib, had
passed through the spinal column in
front OF the first lumbar verterbrae,
driving 4 number Of small fragments of
bone into the adjacent soft parts and
lodging below the pancrcas, about two
and half inches 10 the left Of the spine
and behind the peritoneum where it be-
came completely encysted. The imme-
date cause Of death was secondary,
hemorrhage from one Of the mesenteric
arteries, adjoining the track Of the ball g,
blood rupturing the peritoneum and
nearly pint escaping into the sbdomi-
nal cavity. This hcmOrrhage is believed
to have been the cause Of the severe
pain in tie lower part Of the chest, COM
planned Of just before death. An abscess
cavity, ak inches by four in dimensions,
was found in the vicinity Of the gall
bladder, between the liver and the
transverse colon, which we're strongly
adherent. IL did not involve the sub
stance Of the liver, and no COmmunica-
ton was found between It and the
wound, also the suppurating channel
extended from the external wound
between the loin muscles and the right
kidney, almost 10 the right groin. This
channel, now known 10 be due to the
burrowing Of the puss from the wound,
was supposed, during life, to have been
the track Of the ball. On examination
Of the organs of the chest evidences Of
severe bronchitis were found on both
sides with bronchial pneumonia Of the
lower portions Of the right lung, though
10 much less extent on the left. The
lungs contain no Assesses and the heart
no clOts. The liver was enlarged and
fatty, but free from assesses. Nor
were any found in any other organ, eX-
ccpt the left kidney, which contained
near its surface small abscess about
one-third Of an inch in diameter. In
reviewing the history Of the case In
connection with the autopsy 1t Is quite
evidcn; that the different suppurating
surfaces, and especially the fractured
spongy tissue Of the vertebrae, furnish
a sufficient explanation Of the septic
condition which existed.
iSigncd.
ID. W. Bliss,
+. II. HAMILTON,
J. X. BARSEs,
ID. HAYES AGENKw,
J. j. WOODWARD,
AND'w. J. SMITH,
RoBT. RHYBURN,
ID. ,. LAMB.
TnE AUTOPSY TEDIOUS.
ELDEgoS, v. j., Sept. 3l.--Dr. Bliss
stated ut late hour last night that the
autopsy had been very tedious and the
time occupied in searching for the ball
alone was nearly three-quartcrs Of an
hour. In reply to an inquiry the Doc
tor said that since the conclusion Of the
autopsy, Mr.. Garfield was feeling much
relieved, ~ 1t established he fact that
the patients death was inevitable. He
stated further that the point Of the ball
was somewhat blunt or in battered con-
dition, caused by the force by which il
struck the nib, in other respects ito or
riginal shape was not altered.