Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-28

would soon call an extra session OF
Congress, but although il is understood
that this subject was alluded to at the
cabinet consultation this afternoon, II 10
believed that determination OF the
question will be postponed until AFTER
The installation of the new President in
the White House.
THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE SUR
GEoNS.
ELBEBoN, n. j., Sep. 20.-The fol-
lowing official bulletin WAS prepared at
IL O'Clock tonight by the surgeons who
have been in attendance upon the late
President: by previous arrangement
post-mortem examination OF the
body of President Garfield was made
this afternoon in the presence and with
The assistance of DR.. Hamilton, Agne~,
Rlss. Barnes, Woodward, Reyburn,
Andrew H. Smith, Of Elberon, and
| Act 'ng-AS5lsJauI ou'So"o
the Army Medical Museum, Washing
ton. The operation was performed pJ
DIR. Lamb. 1t was found that the ball,
after fracturing the right eleventh rib,
had passed through the spinal column
in front Of the spinal canal, fracturlng
the body Of the first lumbar verterbras,
driving a number Of small fragments Oh
bone into the adjacent soft parts and
lodging below the pancreas, about TWO
inches and half to the left OF the spine
and behind the perltoneum, where 1t
became completely encysted. Inc
Immediate cause of death was secondary
he norrhage from one of the mesenterlc
arteries adjoining the track OF the blood
rupturing the peritoneum and nearly
pint escaping iuto the abdominal cavity.
| This hemorrhags is believed to have
been the cause of the severe pain in the
Hover part sfthe chest complalnea OF
lust before death. An abscess cavity,
six inches by four in dimensions, was
found in The vicinity ofths gall bladder,
between the lower and the transverse
colsn, which were strongly adherent.-
II did not involve the substance oil The
liver. and no communication was found
be,vsen it and the wound. A long
suupurating channel extended from the
external wound, between the lower
muscles and the right kidney, almost to
the RIGHT groin. This channel, now
known TO be due to the burrowlng Of
pus from the wound, was supposed, dur
ing life, to have been the track oil the
ball. % an examination OF the organs
of the chest evidence of severe bron-
chliis we're found on both sides, with
bronchial pneumonia Of the lover por-
lions of the right lung, and, though 10
q much less extent on the left; the lungs
contain no assesses aud the heart no
Cl0tS. Ine hNeL "ae
fatty, but free from abscesses. Nor
were any found in any other organ, ex'
cent the left kidney, which contained
near its surface small abscess about
one-th,rd of an inch in diameter. In
reviewing the history OF the case IN
connection with the autopsy, 1t is qalte
syident that The different suppuratlng
surfaces, aud especially the fractured
,nongy tissue of the vertebr@, furnish a
sufficient explanation OF The septic coa-
dition which existed.
THE BALL not WHERE 1T WAS
THOUGHT TO DE.
: LONG BRANCH, n. J Sept. ~
Although the autopsy was begun a few
minutes after four o'clock 1t was not
until quarter past eleven O'Clock TO
night that the result was made known
by means of bulletin signed by all the
attending surgeons. DR.. Lamb, OF the
Army Medical Museum, who did the
cutting and DR.. Smith, OF Elberon, who
was called in ordar to comply with the
reoujrements of the laws of this State.
The bulletin was read TO the cores
: ponden.s and 10 those who have been
! watching the cases from the srst and
reporting each days history. 1t was
= tb. cause of much surprise and a great
I deal of comment. The treatment OF
the case, viewed in the light OF the dis
= closures made by the autopsy, Will, II
? in believed. be securely arralgned oy
' he medical profession. The autopsy
I shows conclusively that the ball was
4 not where the surgeons said 1t was, and
, that what has been regarded and pub
lished day by day for weeks as the track
> Of the wound was something else. The
surpsons have been treating an opening
. into the body for the depth Of twelve
Inches made by confined pus burrowlng
,ts way as tho track Of the wound,
when The latter went in an entirely dill
0 ferept direction. The surgeons admll
Q IN the bulletin that an abscess Six oS
u four inches had formed in the vicinity o.
y the gall bladder, between the liver an'
i the transverse colon. The bulletin
n saws also that the ball had passe'
r through and fractured the spinal celum'
9 q fact heretofore strenuously denied D.
of the surgeons. The bulletin fails To g
D. very much into details, and after 1t was
y read Dr.. Bliss said that there was
m small pus cavity on one Of the kidneys
Ie not mentioned III the bulletin. Inc
surgeons say that the immediate caus
r. of death was secondary hemorrhag'
from one Of the arteries adjoining th
Q track of the ball, the blood innAmln
the peritoneum and nearly pint escaI
ia ing iu the abdominal cavity. A med
a cal mau whs heard the report read sal'
|, that the treatment Of the President b
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