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

animation OF the body Of Charles J..
Guiteau. The report is signed 10y
ID. 5. Lamb, and dated Army Med
ical Museum Washington, July 4th.
The report is as follows:
By reason of a 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
lOWiSh tint.was that of a man about
five feet seven inches in height, and
weighed about 145 pounds. The
eyes were examined by DIR. Loring.
who reports the pupils slightly and
equally dilated. The vitreous 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 left ear and the median
line of the head. The light parietal
bone was fattened over a space OF
about two inches square. Just back
of the front parietal suture, and to
the right Of the interpaTietal, there
was Il slight fattened 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 membranes Of the brain duTa
mater were firmly adherent to the
anterior 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 situated
| in the several fOSsae, and were most
marked in the deeper parts Of the
foSs8, where also were small
patches abruptly limited of immOv-
able arb0reScent congestion with,
however, no attendant thickening
or pigmentation. This stagnation
was again most marked III the left
anterior and middle foSse. No con-
jestiOn of the dura, except at the
points Just noted. The dura ami
piamater were adhered to each other
and to the brain on both sides along
limited portion of the longitudinal
assure in the vicinity Of pacchie-
nian granulatiOnS. The dura
slightly thickened along the lOngi-
tudlnal sinus; also slightly thick
ened and Opaque along portion of
the line of the middle meningeal ar
terry on each side. The arachn0id
of the upper cOnveXiJy Of the brain
presented in many places where 1t
| covered the Sulcl small patches Of
thickening and opacity, elsewhere 1t
was normal. Piameter was andlmic
anteriOrly; posteriOrly was slightly
hypostasis. The cerebral vessels
appeared to be normal in all
respects; Orbital plates well
arched and presenter many COZ
ical eminences of large size;
nc rOughening anywhere of the in
ner surface of the skull. Brain
firm; weight, including cerebrum
cerebellum pans and medulld and Il
portion of duFa, 1917 ounces; il
was slightly flattenad ia the
region corresponding to the fiat
tsning of the parretal bone
above mentioned. On section of
cerebrum was an appearance as of
slight THINNING Of gray cOrtex; mea-
surement taken, however, gave the
depths of lie to & inch in close
proximity to each other. The white
substance was almost absolutely
an@mic. The cerebellum anu
island of reil were beth covered on
each side. Fissures generally pre-
fsented considerable depth IN MANY
places, as in the right assure Of TO-
landO, amounting to % OF an inch.
The right assure of sylvius. typical
left, was separated from the nrSt
temporal assure by a slight bridge
deeply situated. The right assure
of rOlandO did not connect with the
assure of sylYiuS; the left was sep
arated only by a small bridge deeply
situated, and both were separated
from the longitudinal assure. First
frontal fiSsure, on right side, was
not connected with that of rolandO,
but the pOsterior part was crossed
by a secondary assure; same on left
side, except that the fissure was
crossed by a small bridge near the
centre. The second and third frontal
assures presented nothing remark
able. The plaecental and retro
Genital fissares on each side
were well defined and IN
connected with other assures.
The iDner-parietal assure On each
side was well defined and uncon-
nected with other assures; the in
teTparietal issure on each side ter
minated in a transverse oceipital
separated only by a slight bridge.
The parieto Occipital was we'll
marked on each side; transverse
Occipital assure on right side, ill de-
defined, being on the median surface
and extended well outWards; first
temporal fissure was we'll DEVELOPED
on right side; on left was not of the
usual length; Wernickes assure well
marked on left side but n cOnfu
ent; colloso marisinal ifs S AZ IOubl;
On each side, the upper Of the two