The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-07
THE AUTOPSY.

New York, 3.-The MedicGl NelOS
OF Philadelphia, furnishes the Off
cal report of the post norton ex
animation of the body Of Charles J.
Guiteau. The report is signed 10y |
d. S. Lamb, and dated Army Med |
zeal Museum Washington, July 4th.
The report is as follows:
BY reason Of delay, Tor which
neither l nor my assistants are re-
spOnSible, the examination was not |
begun until 80 pm, one hour ana /
half after death, in consequence of |
which phOtographing was less sue
ceSsful and the cast practicable. !
The body, which was of faint vel
lOwiSb tint.waS that of a man about
five feet seven inches in height, and
weighed about AS pounds. The
eyes were examined by DIR. Loring.
who reports the pupils slightly and
equally dllated. The YitreOus was
cloudy and the fundus undistin-
guishable. The conjunction of the
left eye was congested. He repeated
the examination two hours later,
and noticed an appearance as of a
transverse fracture of the lenses.
A small white scar. directed
obliquely dOwnwards, forward and
to the left,and confined to the scalp,
was observed midway. between the
top of the LETT ear and the median
line of the head. The light parietal
bone was fiattened over a space OF
about two inches square. Just back
of the front parietal suture, and to
the right Of the interparietdl, there
was slight flattened elevation, cor
responding with the internal sur
face of the calvaria. The frontal
suture was Obliterated The others
were quite distinct. A number Of
pacchiOnan depressiOns were OBJ
served near the groove for the longi-
tudinal sinus. In thickness the
skull presented nothing remarkable.
The membr; neS of the brain duTa
mater were firmly adherent to the
anterior portion of the calvaria in
the vicinity Of the longitudinal
sinus. There were adheSiunS of the
l dura also to the base of the skull.
They were quite firm, and situated
in the several fOSs2, and were most
marked in the deeper parts Of the
foSsse, where also were small
] patches abruptly limited of immOv.
able arborescent congestion with
Z however, no attendant thickening
+ or augmentation. This stagnati0n
. was again most marked III the left
anterior and middle foSs9. No con
jestiOn Of the dura, except at the
e points just noted. The dura ant
o piamater were adhered to each Other
L and to the brain on both sides along
a limited portion of the Longitudinal
It assure in the vicinity of pacchie
L MAN granulationS. The dur;
{ slightly thickened along the lOngi
< tudlnal sinus; also slightly thick
ened and opaque. along portion O
l. the line of the middle meningeal ar
II terry on each side. The arachnOiC
y of the upper cOnveXity Of the braiI
presented in many places where i
n covered the sulci small patches O
# thickening and opacity, elsewhere
n was normal. Piameter was analmi
r anteriOrly; posteriOrly was slight,
5, hypoStaSls. The cerebral vessel
: appeared to be normal in al
e respects; orbital plates vel
d arched and presented many coE
n ical eminences of large size
r no roughening anywhere of the in
lie ner surface of the skull. Brail
firm; weight, including cerebrun
y cerebellum pans and meduld and
~ portion of dura, 4915 ounces;
y, was slightly flattenod ia til
N region corresponding to the fiat
he teniDg of the parretal bon
above mentioned. On section G
he cerebrum Was an appearance as c
p slight THINNING Of gray cortex; mef
d. surement taken, however, gave tn
OF depths nf 1-16 to & inch in clos
OF proximity to each other. The whit
lg substance was almost abSOlatel
anamic. The cerebellum an
so island of reil were both covered o
r. each side. FiSSureS generally pr
IS fSented considerable depth IN man
as places, as in the right assure Of +
Id landO, amounting to - of an incl
On The right assure of sylvius, typic
sc left, was separated from the mr.
" temporal assure by a slight brids
ne deeply situated. The right fissul
W of rolandO did not connect with Il
au assure Of sylViuS; the left was Sc
40 arated only by small bridge deep
be situated, and both were separate
from the longitudinal assure. Fir
Use frontal fiSsure, on right side, W;
not connected with that of roland
but the posteriOr part was crosse
by a secondary assure; same on lie
side, except that the fssure WI
If crossed by a small bridge near Il
az centre. The second and third front
ss assures presented nothing remar
- e able The plaecental and retr
% Genital fiSsares on each sil
he were well defined and u
cd connected with other fssurt
=; The iDner-parietal assure on eat
or side was well defined and unco
os nected with other assures; the i
90 terparietal assure on each side tt
, minated in transverse Occipit;
II separated only by a slight bridg
or. The parieto occipital was WI
marked on each side; TRANSFER
Occipital assure on right side, i'll
defined, being on the median surfa
and extended well outwards; fl
IAN temporal fissure was well develop
I'm on right side; on left was not of t
arv usual length: Wernickes fissure W