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THE DOCTORS QUARREL.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-The statement
published this morning, criticlsing the autop-
sy on the late president, declaring that the ball
was accidentally found in the basin among
the bowels, has been credited in part to Gen.
Swain. He desires it to be known that he
had no hand in it, and has no criticism to
make upon the case, or upon the physicians.
DR.. Woodward, one of the late presidents
surgeons, was asked in regard to the criticism
of the autopsy presented this morning. He
said that those present at the autopsy would
make joint statement at proper time, but
they could not stop individually to chase down
the lies in circulation. He said the operation
was performed by Professor Lamb, one who
was entirely unconnected with the case previ-
ously, and gentleman OF the highest profes-
sional and personal character, and particular
ly distinguished as demonstration of anat-
Omy.
The late presidents physicians are disposed
to treat the criticism of the autopsy with con-
tempt. DR.. ReYburn refuses to discuss SO false
a statement as that which makes the discovery
of the ball matter of accident. Dr.. Bliss says
the ball was not found rattling around in the
bottom of the basin. 1t was found in stu,
nd fr1l1 1x1d frOy ire loci
ing place. 1t was thoroughly encysted, being
covered with a smooth, nearly transparent
deposit of mucous tissue. It had done no
possible harm for weeks, in fact, scarcely any
since it stopped where it was found. It's
smooth surface had long since ceased to be an
irritant of the surrounding tissue. The other
statements in the article were not worth no.
ticing. Prominent physicians here, upon
being questioned to-day. are of
could not have saved Garfield His wound in
the light of the autopsy, was a fatal one.
Viewed in the light of the diagnosis upon
which the case was conducted the president
ought to have recovered, and the confidence
of the surgeons, up to late date, was fully
warranted by the supposed track of the ball.
The fact that the president lived for seventy
nine days after wounded, as known now, will
always be remarked as one of the most re-
treatment of wounds and disease. A detailed
statement of the autopsy is being prepared at
the army medical museum by Prof. Lamb, as
sisted by Drs. Barnes and Woodward. It will
be published by the medical department of
the army.
WASHINGTON, Sept M-Dr- D. Lamb, of
the medical museum, who held the knife in
the post mortem on the late President Gar
field, says of the bullet that the report of the
autopsy issued by the surgeons was correct
and true; that nothing was concealed or held
back and also that the wound was necessarily
fatal. The attempt of several doctors outside
of the case to revive the professional war OF
the presidents case is by doctors generally
pronounced illttimed and out of place, and the
effort to create a sensation out of this affair
has fallen rather fat.
Dr. Bliss tonight said the results of the late
autopsy we're correctly given. There was no
attempt to conceal anything. The wound was
necessarily fatal. ~
DR.. Lamb, who performed the surgical part
of the autopsy, stated that the preliminary re-
port or bulletin showed two things-location o1
| the error of the first diagnosis, and the fact
that the president did not suffer from pyamla