Connecticut western news., 1882-07-12
THE Posr-MoRrEM ON GU1TEAU.
Dr. Lambs Official Report Showing That no Disease of the Brain Could be Detected by Dissection.

Dr. Lambs Official Report Showing That no Disease of the Brain Could be Detected by Dissection.
 The Medical Neaos, of Philadelphia. publishes in its current number an off. . cial account made by Dr. D. s. Lamb Of the post-mortem examination of Gui- teau's body and brain. According to an agreement with the Rev. Dr. Hicks, the custodian of the body, the brain was to be removed and examined without being cut into, and then taken, s'prop- eriy guarded and protected" to the Army Medical Museum, where it would be photographed and cast taken. Then the internal structure of the brain was to be observed and parts of it set apart for microscopical examination. The entire operation was to be completed as far as possible in one day, and notes were to be taken in duplicate. The examination was conducted by Dr. Lamb, assisted by Drs. Hartigan and Sewers, and MT. Schafhirt. Charles Brought, of the Museum, took the pho- tographs. A delay made cast imprac- ticable and photograph not entirely successful.
 The examination of the body showed that there was yellowish furrow ex- tending around the neck in the line of the rope. There was no dlslocation or fracture of the spinal column and no large blood vessels were injured; but as certain muscles and parts of the throat were torn, Guiteau must have died of strangulatiop. There were other signs tending to show that strangulation was the cause of death.
 An examination of the head showed that the right side of the skull was slightly hattened in front over space about two inches square. In thickness the skull presented nothing remarkable. The dura mater, the external membrane of the brain, was adherent to the skull in different places, notably in the neigh borhood of the longitudinal sinus, winch is on the top of the head, and to the base of the skull. Thefe were some points of congestion.
 The dura mater, the external thick membrane, and the pia mater, the in- ternal thin membrane of the brain, were found to be adherent to each other and to the brain along limited part of the longitudinal Assure. The dura ma- ter was slightly thickened in two places. The inner surface of the skull was smooth and the parts above the eyes were arched. The brain was firm. Its weight including everything to the be- ginning of the spinal cord, was forty nine and 8 half ounces. Nothing un- usual was discovered in the condition of the blood-vessels supplying the brain.
 The editor of the Medical NeaVs in commenting upon the post-mortem examination says:
 "Some deviations from the typically normal brain are referred to in the re- port, but they have absolutely no sig nltication from the point of view of mental derangement. Adhesions of the dura mater, and the thickening of the membrane, without any evidence of CO., existent inflammation, cannot be said, indeed, to have any pathological signifi- canoe. It may be affirmed of Guiteau's brain that it presented as little evidence of pathological change as the brain of any one of his age dying of some other than cerebral disease. >What may be disclosed on microscopic investigation. which IS yet to be made, remains to be seen. Here the opportunities are great for unconscious deception and for diff ferences of opinion. As the naked-eye appearances are so little suggestive of disease, the minuter changes must be well fortified by the skill and experience of the microscopists undertaking the in- vestigation, to be accepted without re- serve. There must be no preconceived opinions, no previous predictions and no prejudices of any kind on the part of the microscopic experts to give a bias to their conclusions. They should, indeed, enter on this investigation in the spirit in which the autopsy was conducted"
 Drs. Wm. J. Morton and Ohas. l.. Damn, who were present at the post mortem examination held upon the body of Guiteau, have published in the current number of the New York Medical Record their notes of the ex- animation. Their account agrees essentially with that of Dr. Lamb. 1
 The Army Medical Museum in Wash ington to which Guiteau's body has been taken, and where it is said to have been reduced or is about to be reduced to skeleton, was Ford's Theatre during the war. The alley by which the un- dertaker's cart brought the body to the rear of the museum was the one through which Booth escaped after shooting President Lincoln, and through which, four years later, Booths remains were taken to the museum to be trans ferred from the box in which the Gov ernment had buried them at the arsenal to temporary coffin for removal to Baltimore, where the final interment took place.
 Bill Arp on COurtship.
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