The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-07-13
GUITEAU,s BODY.
DIR. Lambs Special Report of the Autopsy.

DIR. Lambs Special Report of the Autopsy.
NEW YORK, July 8.
The Medical Ne,us of Philadelphia furnishes
the Western Associated Press with an advance
copy of this weeks issue, which contains the
official report of the post-mortem examination
of the body of Charles j. Guiteau. The report
is signed by D. S. Lamb, and is dated at the
Army Medical Museum, Washington, ID. c.,
July 4, and is, in substance, as follows:
By reason of delay for which nei her 1 nor
my assistants were responsible, the examine
ton was not begun until 2:3O p. m. Zone hour
and half after DEATH, IN consequence of
which the photographing was less successful,
and a cast was impraeticable: The body,
which was of a faint yelowish tint, was that
of a man about five feet seven inches in
height, and weighed AS pounds. The eyes
were examined by DR.. Loring, who reported
the pupils slightly and equally dilated the
vitreous was cloudy; the fundus undis-
tinguishable; the conjunctiva of the left
eye congeSted. He repeated the exam inatiOn
two hours later and noticed an appearance as
of a transverse fracture of the lenses. A
ward, forward and to the left. and confined
to the scalp, observed midway between
the top of the left ear and the median line OF
the head.
The right parietal bone was slightly aattened
over a space about two inches square, just
back of the frontal parietal suture, and to the
right of the interparietal there was slight
fattened elevation on the corresponding inter
nal surface of the calvaria. The frontal suture
| was obliterated, the others quite distinct. A
number of pacchionian depressions were OBJ.
| served near the groove for the longitudinal
| sinus. In thickness the skull presented moth
| ing remarkable.
| MEMBRANES OF THE BRAIN.
The dura mater was firmly adherent to the
anterior portion of the calvaria in the vicini.
| ty of the longitudinal sinus. There were ad
hesions of the dura also to the base of the
skull; they were quite firm, and stu
ated in the several fosse, and most
marked in the deeper parts of the fosse
where also there were small patches, alb
| ruptly limited, of immovabIe arborescent con-
| gestion, with, however, no attendant thicken
ing or pigmentation. This stagnatiOn was
| again most marked in the left anterior and
middle foss@. There was no congestion OF
the dura except at the points just noted. The
| dura mater and pia mater were adherent tc
each other and to the brain on both sides along
| limited portion of the longitudinal fssure
| in the vicinity of the pacchionian granula
tions. The dtira was slightly thickened along
thickened and Opaque along portion of thu
line of the middle meningeal artery on eacf
side The arachnoid of the upper convexity
of the brain presented in many places where
it covered the sulci, small patches O
thckening and opacity; elsewhere i
was normal: The pia mater was anem
| io anteriorly; posteriorly there was
slight hypastasis. The cerebral vessels ap
peared to be normal in all respects The or
|
many conical eminences of large size. Ther'
was no roughening anywhere of the inner sur
face of the skull. The brain was firm. 1t
weight including cerebrum, cerebellum, pom
and medulla, and a portion of the dura wa
forty-nine and one-half ounces. 1t was slight
ly fiattened in the region corresponding to th
fattening of the parietal bone above men
toned. On section of the cerebrum. ther
was an appearance as of slight thinning o
the gray cdrtex. The measurements taken
however, gave depths of one-sixteenth to one
eighth inch in close proximity to each other
The white substance was almost absolutel,
anaemic The cerebellum and island of Rel
were both covered on each side.
THE F1ssUREs.
The assures generally presented considers
BILE depth-in many places, as in the right fs
sure of Rolando, amounting to seven-eighth
of an inch. The right fissure of Sylvius wa
typical the left was separated from the frs
temporal fissure. by slight bridge, deepl
situated. The right fissure of Rolando did ne
connect with the fi5sure of SylyiuS; the lei
Z was separated- sonly Sbys asn1Rii bridge deepl
situated; both were separated from the long
tudinal fiSsure. The first frontal fssure on th
right side was not connected with that of r.
lando, but the posterior part was crossed by
secondary fssure; the same on the left sid
except that the tissure was crossed by a sma
bridge near its center. The second and thir
frontal assures presented nothing remarkable
There were numerous secondary fissure
The prsecentral and retrocental assures o
each side were well defined, and were uncoI
nected with the other assures. The inte
mated in the transverse occipital, separate
only by slight bridge. The parIeto-occipit
occipital fissure on the right side was lid
fined; ii began on the median surface and e.
tended well outward. The first temporal fl:
sure was well developed on the right side; G
the left it was not of the usual length. We
nicke's fssure was well marked on the lie
side, but not continent. The calloso-margin
the two being probably the true one. On IL
right the upper one extended back to the a
terror margin OF the parseentrar i i0buie; ON p
on the right side to a line about half an inc
- in front of the parieto-occipital tissure, fro
which it was separated by small bridge; {
the left side, also, by bridge of larger size
, oRBITAL SURFACE.
On the right side were seven assures radis
. ing from the circular fissure surrounding
small isolated convolution. On the left sit
, were five assures, radiating from sma
shallow depression. The left collateral fissu
was well defined, extending to the anterior e
tremity of the temporal lobe; the right WI
, also we'll marked, but did not extend so fl
back as the other, aud there was an attem
at confluence anteriorly with the temporo-o
cipitai small bridge intervening. The lie
temporo-occipital fissure was well defined.
l THE CoNvoLUTIoNs.
. The following alone call for remark:
. The ascending frontal was well defined {
, each side. The ascending parietal on the rig
} side was well developed in its lower thre
d. fourths, but narrowed in the upper fourt
On the left side the narrowing was lie
' marked. The island of Reil presented on Il
right side five assures and six straight gyI
I on the left side seven assures and eig
: straight gyri. The paracentral lobule vi
well marked on the right side, small on Il
: left.
e THoRAx AND ABDOMEN.
= The usual median incision was made and t
9 abdomen opened. There was eXtravasation
D blood into the right pectoralis major muse
| lib, 1Ino low Of
n abdominal section was one inch in thic
8 ness. The dome of the diaphragm extend
up to the fourth rib each side. The
o we're old pleuritic adhesions at the APP
e Of the & right lung; The upper 1ieaa and mi
etg Connective eS9fs EF9 tissue. The lung wS norm
; throughout. There were also old pleuritic a
u hesions of the left lung to the diaphragm al
s pigmented patches were observed in the u
q per lobe. The heart weighed ten and thre
q quarter ounces. Its muscular substance W
. apparently normal. There was an abundan
;, of fat upon its anterior surface and
:. villous patch of old pericarditis near t
t apex of the left ventricle. The, rig
forming a clot. The valves were norm
|. The aorta was slightly atheromato
r for short distance above the valves. All
8 the abdominal viscera presented large accum
n lations of fat. They were normally situate
9 The liver was congested. The gall-bladd
contained little bile. The spleen was lot
), lated and enlarged. 1t weighed eighte
d ounces; the capsule was BLUSH, the substan
= brown; the malpighian bodies hypertrophie
!, tanned food. The intestnes appeared norm
- They were not opened. The kidneys we
). congested. There was small superhc
o serous cyst on the right one.
II NOTES.
= 1. considerable quantity of dark blood r
II out of the heart in the separation of the hea
= = and lungs.
u 2. DR.. Young states that the man was 81
!, ject to malarial attacks while in jail.
It 3. He had eaten dinner about an hour anc
+ half before execution.
h "A handy new garment for travel
Q sleeping cars is a very thin but all G
\ veloping cloak, buttoning up from ch
+ to toes. When ready to retire for t.
/. night the woman puts it on, and tn
It undresses under it, safe from those pr
|, ing eyes which abound in sleeping ca
6 and which curtains cannot effectua