The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-07-01

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and weighed forty nine ounces. TIL
> heart weighed little over nine ounces an
was in healthy condition as were all othe
internal organs. Dr. McWilliams was th
first to leave the room where the autops
was held, said that there was nothing s.
far as he could see about the brain tha
J was abnormal. Its weight was 493 ounce
according 10 DR.. McWilliams The genera
yisera, he said, were in perfect condition
At 3:15 the autopsp adjourned until thi
evening when his brain will be taken to tn
medical museum on Tenth stree
where most minute ant
a critical examination viii be made Physic
ians were disinclined to go into details il
regard to results thus far reached. DIR
Hartigan left the Jail soon after four. tax
ing with him Guiteau's brain. DIR. Godding
who has maintained that Guiteau was in
sane, when asked what result, sasd: ''
have nothing to say now" Anothe
physician remarked: awe are al
knownothings. A bystander replied: "SC
the uneducated non expert public thought
at the time of the other autopsy" All the
physicians agreed there were lymphae in
the brain and hardening of the d,tra nadter.
None of them care to express a positive
opinion until after the examination will be
completed. DR.. Bliss said there were many
points showing good healthy mental and
physical developement Dr. Hartigan,
| who had custody of
GUTTEAU's BRAIN,
took it at 4:30 to the army medical museum,
| where in a room set apart for Photographic
purposes, a number of surgeons and ply
sicfans had assembled to continue the au-
topsy. Among those present were Drs.
Nichols and Mcdonald, of New York, and
Drs. Lamb, Loring, Powers, Reyburn,
Elliott and Godding, of Washington. The
direction of soperations was. by unani-
nous consent, given to DR.. Lamb 1t had
been the intention of surgeons to begin by
making plaster cast of the brain, with a
view of preservation in that form of its
confguration and external characteristics,
but the organ was found to he so soft and
yielding as to- render this impossible. Re-
sort was therefore taken to photography
On account OF tnefhteness of the hour and
dull and overcast sky, preparations were
necessarily hurried. but after placing the
brain on mass of cuTled hair, such as that
used IN upholstery, and disposing of it in
form which it had during life, number
of negatives were taken of it from various
points of view, with m ore or less success
full results.
ANATOMICAL. EXAMINATION
was then resumed. This examination,
which will include careful microscopical
study of the tissues and structural charac-
teristics of organs, will certainly not be
finished before tomorrow afternoon, and
may occupy several days. Surgeons and
physicians who are participating in the
autopsy have pledged themselves not to
make public in the meantime any individ-
ual conclusions of which they may arrive
at, in order that the official report,
when made may have the full weight and
value as representing the conclusion of all
examining physicians.
The results of the autopsy, so far as can
be learned tonight from surgeons present,
may be stated as follows: After surveying
the body externally the surgeons proceeded
to lay open the brain cavity and thorax,
tanned. The brain was found to weigh
494 ounces which is little more than the
weight of the average human brain. 1t
was well formed, and presented no exter-
nal evidence of disease or lesion. The
lungs and heart were in their normal con-
dition, but there was q slight ruff1ing of
the aorta, in the vicinity of the heart. The
neck was not dislocated or fractured. as
the surgeons at first supposed, but there
was a rupture of the sterno eIeido mdstoid
muscle on both sides, as well as of the
Myr0 hyrosd membrane. 1t follows, there
fore, that death resulted from suffocation,
and not from dislocation of the spinal YER
tebrae. A partial examination was made
of the abdominal vfscera. but it had not been
completed at the time the autopsy sus-
pended. The spleen was found to be con
siderably enlarged, its weight being fifteen
ounces or more than twice that of the nor
NAL spleen. Other abdominal organs, as
far as examined, presented no unusual fea
lures. The report of the surgeons making
the autopsy will probably not be ready for
publication before Wednesday next.
CLOSING SCENES.
Immediately after his reading his verses,
II am going to the Lordy," his voice,
which had begun quivering. broke down
entirely and he wept He had predicted
he would earlier in the day He sobbed
aloud tears flowing @iown his cheeks in
copious streams. He rallied again and
continued with frequent outbursts of cry
ing, to read The impression produced by
this extraordinary scene was painful in the
extreme. Strong men turned aside with
mingled feelings of pity and disgust, and
probably at that moment every beholder
felt in his inm6t soul that The poor
wretch before them was insane, but the
drama went rapidly on. Dr. Hicks, turn
ing to the prisoner, pronounced the bene-
diction. Guiteau, who by this time had re-
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