The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-01
WHEELING, SATURDAY JULY 1.lss2

the greatest interest by the other mcd!ca
gentlemen who crowded about the table
After an examination Of the eyes, the brair
was removed and inspected. Dr.; a. u
Loring found tho left ego completed,
suilused with blood, and both eyes were sc
indlstinct that no opinion could be
formed Of their condition or expression
Then the body was cut open and n
thorough and complete examination made
with II view TO determining NIL tho physi.
illogical facts that could DO Of interest In
connection with the case. The brlin was
found TO be in n normal condition and
weighed forty.nine ounces. The heart
weighed little over nine ounces and was
in rs healthy condition Us were all tho
other Internal organs.
| DR.. MacWilliams, the first physician, tho
tirst physician to leave the room where
the autopsy was held, said there was moth.
ing, 20 far us he could see about the brain
TINT WAS abnormal. It's weight, according
to Dr.. MacWilliams, WINS 10! ounces. The
general viscera, he sail, were in perfect
condition. 1gE''5.
AT S:55 the autopsy was adjourned until
this sevenine, when the brain will be tul,en
to the Medical Museum on Tenth street,
where more minute aud critical oxami.
nation will be made. ts 55
#1 KSow.SoTnINGs.
The physicians were disinclined to 60
into details in regard 10 the results thus
far reached. DR.. IIartigan left the Jail
soon after four o'clock taking Will, him
Guiteau's brain. DR.. Goddinr, who had
maintained that Gnitcau was insane, said,
when asked what the result Of the AUTOPSY
was, II have nothing 10 say now" i
Another physician remarked: ave are
oil know-nothings." S. 81 4.
4 by stander replied $50 the uneducat-
ed, non.cSpert public thought ut the time
OF the other autopsy"
| All the physicians agreed that thero were
lymphp In the brain and hardening OF the
dura mattel: None Of them care to ex-
press positive opinion until after the ex-
animation shall have been completed Dr..
Bliss said there were many points shown.
ngood, healthy mental and physical de.
velopment $50 90 IS l.
GuITEAu's BRAIN. a
DR.. Hartigan, who had the custody OF
Guiteau's brain, took itat half pas. four 10
the Army Medical Museum where, in n
room set apar. for Photographic purposes,
number oi surgeons and physicians h ad
asstmbledto c0nllnuethe autopsy, Among
those present were Drs. Nichols and Nc.
Donald, OF New Eolk, and Drs. Lamb,
I1oring, Powers, Reyburu, Elliott.
and GodtlDg, OF Washington. The dir.c.
tion Of operations was, by unanimous con.
sent, given to DIR. Lamb. 1t had been the
intention OF the surgeons to begin by max
ing a plaster cast Of the brain, with II view
to Il permanent preservation in that form
OF its cohlglrltion and external character.
isilcs, but the organ was found 10 be 50
suit and yielding rs to render this inprac.
ticable. Resort was therefore had TO pho
t0graphv. On account OF the latencss oi
the hour and OF II dull and overcast sky
the preparations, were necessarily hurried.
THE niAlS PHOTOGRAPHER.
But after placing the brain on mass Of
carried hair such rs that used in uphol.
stery, and disposins it in the form which
it had during life, number OF negatives
were taken Of il from various points o! view,
with more or less successful results The
anatomical examination Of the brain WAS
then resumed. This examination, which
will include II careful microseopicaI study
of the TISSUES and structural char.
acterlstics OF the organ, will
certainly not before tomorrow afternoon,
and may occupy several days. The sur.
geons and physicians who arc par,ici.
pa'ing in the autopsy, have pledged them.
selves not TO make public ia the meantime
any individual conclusion, ut which they
may arrive, in order that the official repor;
when made may have full weight
and value as representing the conclu.
sion Of ull the examining physicians.
The result Of the autopsy, so lar Ms they
can be learned tonight from the surgeons
who were present, may bestated as follows:
The brain was well formed and presented
no external evidence OF disease or
lesion. The lungs and heart were
in their normal condition but there
was Il slight ruflling OF the aorta in
the vicinity OF the heart. Tho neck was
not disloca,ed or fractured, MS tie surgeons
at first supposed, but there was rupture
Of the s.t7lo cleidO masloid muscle OIL both
sides as well Of the hyro hyoid membrane.
It follows, therefore, that death resulted
from suilocation, aud not from d;sloca-
tion OF the spinal vertetrc.
a partial examination was made OF the
abdominal viscera, but it had not been
completed at the time the autopsy was sus.
pended. The spleen was found 10 bu con.
siderably enlarged, its weight being fifteen
ounces, or more than twice that Of the
normal! spleen. The other abdominal
organs as lar as examined presented no
unusual features.
The report OF the surgeons making the
autopsy will probably not bo ready for
publication before Wednesday next. =.
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