Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-07-07
AUToPsY ON GUirEAU's D0DT.


PHILADxxRHIA, July s.
n Med5nl Neus, q this city. tomorrow
vfll rabIish tie o1leial report of the autopsy
ON IL body q Guieeau signed by DIR. ID. s.
Lanh. Afher detailing The course of pro-
ceedure fixed upon and enumerating those
present 1t the autopsy. he says the examina-
zion vas then conducted BY myself, assisted
By Drs. Hartigan and Somers and Mr.. Scot
hirt, anatomist of medical museum, and a.
near ~ possible in the order proposed. The
eyes we're examined BY DIR. Loring, who re-
ported the pupils to be slightly and equally
dilated, the vitreous was cloudy and fundus
indisting, and the shable conjunctiva of the
left eye vas congested. He repeated the ex-
animation two hours later and noticed an an
pearance ~ of transverse fracture of the
lenses. A small white scar, directed oblQue-
" downvards, forwards and to the left and
confused to the scalp was observed midway
between the top Of the left ear and the median
line Of the head. The report SAYS: The
cerebral vessels appeared normal. The
brain vas firm. Its weight, including the
cerebfum cerebellum pons and medulla
and portion of the dura, was
494 ounces. In one section Of the
cerebrum there was appearance az of . slight
thinning OF the gray cOrtex, the white SUBJ
stance almost absolutely anaemic. The
fissures generally presented considerable
depth and we're generally we'll developed. The
ascending frontal was well defined ON each
aide. The ascending parietal on the right
side was we'll developed in its lower three
fourths, but narrowed in the upper fourth.
On the left side the narrowing was less
marked. The island of reil presented on the
right side five assures and six straight gyri
and on the left side seven assures and eight
straight gyri. The paracentral lobule was
well marked on the right side, but small on
the LEFT. The usual median incision was
made and the abdomen opened. There was
| an .extravasation of blood into the right
pectoralis major muscle near tie second
rib. The adipose layer of the abdominal sec
ton was one inch in thickness. The dome of
the diaphragm extended up to the fourth rib.
| At the apex of the right lung the upper and
middle lobes were congenitally united by
| connective tissue. The lung was normal
| throughout, also the old pleuritic adhesions
Of the left lung to the diaphragm, and be-
tween its lobes three small tubercle-like
augmented patches were observed. The heart
weighed l0i ounces. Its muscular substance
was apparently normal; was an abundance of
| fat upon its anterior surface, and a villous
patch of old personalities near the apex of
the left ventricle. The right ventricle con.
tanned q little blood just forming clot. The
valves were normal and all the abdominal
viscera presented a large accumulation Of
fat. They were normally situated. The
liver was contested; gall bladder
contained little bile; spleen was labulated
and enlarged, and weighed Is ounces; pan
creas normal; stomach contained food intes-
tines appeared normal and were not opened
kidneys were congested, and there was
small superficial Serious cyst on the
right one. The results of the microscopic
examinations to be reported hereafter. In a
long editorial the Medical News says it must
appear, from the report of the autopsy, that
there were psychiatrists who expected to
demonstrate the assassins criminal irrespon-
sibility by the changes in his brain will have
rather difficult task. Some of the devia-
tons from the typically normal brain are re-
ferred to in the report, but they have abso-
lutely no qualification from the point of view
of mental arrangement. 1t may be affirmed
Of Guiteau's brain that it presented as little
evidence of pathological change as brain
of anyone of his age dying of some other
than cerebral disease.