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

Official Report by DR.. Lamb of the State OF
Guiteau's Innsrds-SlightIy Technical,
but Indicating Insanity.
NEW York, July 6.-The Medical News,
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 B. 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 nor my assistants we're 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 l45 pounds.
The eyes were examined by Or. Loripg,
who reported that the pupils were slightly
and equally diIated. The vltreous was cloudy
and the fundus undisting uishable and the con-
junctiyea Of left eye 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
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left, and confined to the scalp was observed
midway between the left ear and mediaD line
of the head.
Skull-The right parietal was slightly fiat
tened over space about stwo inches square,
just back of the front parietal suture, and
at the right OF the inter parietal there was
a 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,
branes of the brain the dura meter was fairly
adhered to the interior portion of the calvaria
in the vicinity of the longitudinal sinus. There
were sdhesions OF the dura, also, to the base of
the skull. They were quite firm and secreted
in several fosse, and were most marked in the
deeper parts OF the foss9. where also
there were small patches, abruptly
limited, of immovable arborescent congestion
with, however, no attendant thickeaing or
pigmentation. This stagnation was again
most marked in the left anterior and middle
foss4: 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 limited por-
ton OF the longitudinal fssure. In the vicinity
OF the pacchionian granulatiens the
dura was slightly thickened along
the longitudinal sinuses. It was
also slightly thickened and opaque
along portion of the line of the middle
meningeal artery on each side. The
aracheneod of the upper cOnvexity of the
brain presented in many places, where it COW
cred the sulca. small patches of thickening
and apacities. Elsewhere it was normal The
pia meter was an;emic anteriorly. Posteriorly
there was slight hypastastis. The cerebral
vessels appeared to be normal in all respects.
H1.4 tel
sented many cOnical eminences Of large size
There was no roughening anywhere OF the in-
ner surface of the skull. The brain was
firm. Its weight, including cerebrum cere-
bellum, paus and medulla and sportlon of
the dura was 49H ounces. 1t was partly fat
tened in the region corresponding to the fat
tening partial bone above mentioned. On a
section OF the cerebum there was an appear
ance as OF slight thinning OF the BRAIN
CAVITY. The measurements taken, however,
gave depths Of lie to 4 OF an inch in close
proximity to each other. The white cub
stance was almost absolutely anamlc. The
cerebellum and island of Neil were both COW
cred on each side of the fssure. The
fissures generally presented considerable
depth, in many places in the right assure
OF ROlando amounting to seven-eighths of an
inch. The right fissure OF Sylvus was typical.
The left was separate from the frat temporal
fissure by slight bridge deeply situated, the
right assure of ROlando did not connect with
the fissure of Sylvus. The left was separated
only by small bridge deeply situated. Both
were separated from the longitudinal fissure.
The first frontal fis 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 fissure 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 fissure on
each side terminated in the transverse occipi-
tai, separated only by a slight bridge. The
parietO occipital was well marked on each
side. The transverse occipital assure ON the
right side was i'll defined. 1t began on the
median 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 fissure was well
marked on the left side, but not continent.
The calliossa marginal fisSure was double on
each side, the upper of the two being the
probable true one. On the right the upper
one extended back to the interior margin of
the paracental labule. 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
pdiiCeO OCCIpltdi uSouIc IIOU WHICH 3 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 fissure
surrounding some isolated convolutions. On
the left side were five fissur.s 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
anteriorly with the Temporal occipital, small
bridge intervening. The left Temporal occipi-
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 well 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
pectoralis 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 lung. The upper and mid
die lobes focre were congenitally united by q
connective tissue. The lung was normal