Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-07
AUTOPSY OF THE ASSASSIN
Official Report by DIR. Lamb of the State OF
Gufteau's Innsrds-Slightly Technical,
but Indicating Insanity.

New York, July G.-The Medical Ncws,
| Philadelphia, furnishes the Western Associat-
ed Press with an advance copy of this weeks
issue, which confirms the official report of the
post mortem examination of the body of c. j.
| Guiteau. The report is signed by 3. S.
Lamb, and dated at the army medical museum,
| Washington, July 4. The official report has
| been delayed by reason Of delay, for which
| neither l nor my assistants were responsible.
The examination was not begun until 2:30 p.
| m, an hour and half after the death, in con-
sequence of which phOtographing was less
successful, and cast impracticable. The
body was OF faint yellow tint, was that
Of a man five feet seven in ches in height, and
weighed 145 pounds.
The eyes were examined by Dr. LoriDg,
who reported that the pupils were slightly
and equally diIated. The vItreous was cloudy
and the fundus undistinguishable and the con-
Junctivea Of left eye congested. He repeated
the examination two hours later, and noticed
an appearance as of transverse fracture of
the lenses. A small white scar, directed
obliquely dOwnwards, forwards and to the
left, and confined to the scalp was observed
midway between the left ear and mediap line
of the head.
Skull-The right parietal was slightly fat
tened over space about stwo inches square,
Just back of the front parietal suture, and
at the right of the inter parietal there was
slight fattened elevation on the correspond
ing internal surface of the calvaria The
frontal suture was obliterated. The others
were quite distinct. A number of pacchionan
dePressions were observed near the groove for
the longitudinal sinus. In thickness the skull
presented nothing remarkable. In the men,
hron IF tha hraip fI.a Ax,r IL
adhered to the interior portion of the calvaria
in the vicinity of the longitudinal sinus. There
were adhesions OF the dura, also, to the base of
the skull. They were quite firm and secreted
in several fOss3, and were most marked in the
deeper parts of the fossa. where also
there were small patches, abruptly
limited, of immovable arbOrescent congestion
with, however, no attendant thickeaing or
REORGANIZATION. This stagnation was again
most marked in the left anterior and middle
| fOss;e. There was no congestion of the dura
except at the points just noted. The dura
| and pia meter were adherent to each other and
to the brain on both sides along a limited por-
ton of the longitudinal fissure. In the vicinity
OF the pacchionian granulatiens the
the longitudinal sinuses. It was
also slightly thickened and opaque
| along a portion of the line of the middle
| meningeal artery on each side. The
aracheD3Od OF the upper cOnyeXity of the
brain presented in many places, where it COW
cred the sulca. small patches of thickening
and apacltles. Elsewhere it was normal. The
pia meter was aD;emic anteriorly. POsteriorly
there was slight hypastastis. The cerebral
vessels appeared to be normal in all respects.
The Orbital places were well arched and pre-
sented many cOnical eminences Of large size.
There was no rOughening anywhere OF the in
ner surface of the skull. The brain was
Grr. Tic lid,
bellum, paus and medulla and a .portIon of
the dura was 49H ounces. 1t was partly fiat
tened in the region corresponding to the fiat
tening partial bone above mentioned. On
section OF the cerebum there was an appear
ance as OF a slight thinning OF the BRAIN
CAVITY. The measurements taken, however,
gave depths of l-16 to q OF an inch in close
proximity 10 each other. The white sub
stance was almost absolutely anamlc. The
cerebellum and island of Neil were both COW
cred on each side Of the 1issure. The
assures generally presented considerable
depth, in many places in the right fissure
OF RolandO amounting to seven-eighths of an
inch. The right fissure Of Sylyus was typical.
The left was separate from the first temporal
assure by slight bridge deeply situated, the
right assure of Rolando did not connect with
the issure of Sylvus. The left was separated
only by small bridge deeply situated Both
were separated from the longitudinal fissure.
The first frontal tis sure on the right side was
not connected with that of RolandO, but the
posterior ipart was crossed bya secondary
assure. The same on the left side except
that the assure was crossed by small bridge
near its center. The second and third frontal
assures presented nothing remarkable. There
were numerous secondary assures. The prac-
central and letrOcentral assures on each side
were well defended and were uncOnnected with
other assures. The inter parietal 1issure on
each side terminated in the transverse occipi-
tai, separated only by slight bridge. The
parieto occipital was well marked on each
side. The transverse Occiptal tissure ON the
right side was i'll defined. 1t began on the
medlan surface and extended well outwards
The first temporal fissure was well DEVELOPED
on the right side. On the left it was not Of
the usual length. Wernocke's iissure was well
marked on the left side. but not continent.
The calliossa marginal fissure was double on
each side, the upper of the two beng the
probable true one. On the right the upper
one extended back 10 the interior margin of
the paracental lab,Ile On the left, not quite
so far. The lower one extended on the
right side to line about one
half an inch in front of the
parleto occipital fissure from which it was
separated by small bridge on the left side,
and also by bridge of larger seize of orbitai
surface. On the right side were several ifs
sures radiating from the circular fssure
surrounding some isolated copvolutions. On
the left side were five fissurts radiatiug from
| small shallow depression. The left collat-
eral fssure was well defined, extending TO the
anterior extremity OF the temporal LOBE. The
right was also well marked, but did not ex-
tend so far back as the other, and
there was an attempt at the confluence of the
| anteriOrIy with the Temporal occiptal, small
bridge intervening. The left Temporal occpi-
tai fissure was well defined.
OF the convolutions the following alone call
for remark. The ascending frontal was well
defined on each side. The ascending
parietal on tina right side was well
developed in its lower three. quarters,
but narrowed in the upper fourth On the
left side the narrowing was less marked. The
island OF Neil presented in the right side five
assures, and six straight gyri; on the left
side seven assures and eight straight gyri.
The paraceural lobule was we'll marked on
the right side and small on the left.
Thorax and abdOmen.-The usual median
incislOn was made and the abdomen opened.
There was extravasation of blood into the right
pectoralls major muscle. N ear the second
rib the adipose layer of abdominal section
was one inch in thickness. The dome of the
diaphragm extended up to the fourth rib.
There were old pleuritic adhesions at the
apex of the right Jung. The upper and mid
die lobes focre were congenitally united by a
connective tissue. The lung was normal
throughout. There were also old pleuriticas-
ties OIL the soft part of the lung to the dia-
phragm and between its lObes, and three