The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-07-14
THE SCALPEL'S SECRETS.

lambs ST ecIa1 Report Of the Cases
The Medical Nescs, Of Philadelphia, prints
the official report of tie post-mortem examina-
ton OF the body of Charles J. Guiteau. The
report is signed by "Dr. Lamb, /" and is dated
Army Medical Museum, Washington, July 4;
THE orfIttAL RkPoRf.
By reason of the delay, for which neither /
nor my assistants were responsible, the exam
nation was not begun until $50 o'clock p. m,
one hour and half after death, in consequence
Of which the photographing was less success
full and cast was impracticable. The
body, which was OF faint, yellowish tint
inches in height and weighed 40 pounds. The
eyes were examined by Dr.. Loring, who report
ed the pupils slightly and equally dilated. The
vitreous was cloudy and the fundus undlstina
quishable the conjunetiya tf the left eye was
congesteds he repeated the examination two
hours later, and noticed an appearance as Of q
transverse fracture of the lenses. A small
ward, and to the left and confined to the scalp,
was observed midway between the top of the
left ear and the median line of the head.
The right parietal bone was slightly fattened
over space of about two inches square, just
back of the fronto parietal suture, and to the
right of the inter-parietal there was slightly
fastened elevation on the corresponding inter-
nal surface of the calyaria The frontal suttir6
was oblitefated but the others were quite dis
tinct A ntmbef OF pacchlonian depressions
we're observed near the groove for the longitu-
dinal sinus.
In thickness the skull presented nothing re-
markable.
The ddra mater was firmly adherent to the
anterior portion of the calvaria in the vicinity
~ H. 1~,.r t0n1
sions Of the dura also to the base of the
skull they were quite firm, and situated in the
several fassae and most marked in the deeper
parts of the fassae, where also there were small
patches, abruptly limited, of immovable
arborescent COMPOSITIONS, with, however, no
attendant thickening or fermentation. This
stagnation was again marked in the left,
anterior and middle fassae. There was no
congestion of the dura, except at the points
Just noted. The dura and piamater were
adherent to each other, and to the brain on
both sides along limited portion of the lon
gitudinal fissure, in the vicinity of the pacchio
MAN granulations. The dura was slightly
thickened along the longitudinal sinus It was
also slightly thickened and Opaque along the
portion of the line Of the middle meningeal
artery on each side.
The arachnoid of the upper convexity Of
the brain presented in many places where it
covered the sulci, small patches of thicken-
ing and opacity elsewhere it was normal.
The piameter was anBmic anteriorly; posterior-
ly there WIS slight hypastasis. The cere-
bral vessels appeared to be normal in all
respects. The orbital plates were well arched,
and presented many conical emlnences of large
size. There was no roughening anywhere OF
the inner surface of the skull.
The brain was firm. Its weight, including
the cerebrum, cerebellum, pans and medulla,
and portion of the dura, was 4919 ounces. It
was slightly fattened in the region correspond
ing to the fattening of the parietal bone above
mentioned. On u section of the cerebrum there
was the appearance of slight thinning of the
gray cartex. The measurements taken, how
ever, gave depths of lie to q inch in close
proximity to each other. The white substance
was almost absolutely an@mic. The cerebel-
lum and island of Rel were both covered on
each side.
The assures generally presented considerable
depth in many places, as in the right assure
of. Rolando amounting to seVen-eighths of an
inch.
The right assure of Sylvius was typical; the
left was separated from the first temporal fssure
by slight bridge deeply situated.
The right fssure of Rolando did not connect
with the assure of Sylvius; the left was sep
arated only by small bridge deeply situated:
both were separated from the longitudinal
fissure.
Inc urSG frontal assure Oh GQ6 ElSlg BlQ0 WAS
not connected with that of Rolando, but the
posterior part was crossed by a secondary assure.
The same was the case on the left side, except
that the fissure was crossed by small bridge
near it's center.
The second and third frontal assures pre-
sented nothing remarkable. There were nu-
merous secondary assures
The pr@central and retrocentral assures, on
each side, were we'll defined, and were uncon-
nected with the other assures.
The inter-parietal fssure on each side ter
minated in the transverse occipital, separated
only by slight bridge. The parieto-occipital
assure was well marked on each side. The
transverse occpital assure on the right side
was ill-deined it began on the median sur
face and extended well outward.
The first temporal fssure was well developed
on the right side on the left it was not of the
usual length.
Wernicke's fissure was well marked on the
left side, but was not continent.
The calloso marginal fssure was double on
each side, the upper of the two being probably
the true one. On the right, the upper one ex-
tended back to the anterior margin of the par
acentral lobule on left, not quite 30 far. The
lower one extended on the right side to a line
about half an inch in front of the parieto-oc-
cipital fissure, from which it was separated by
a small bridge; on the left side, also, by q
bridge of larger size.
On the right side were seven assures radiat-
ing from the circular fissure surrounding a
small isolated convolution. On the left side
were Eve assures radiating from a small, shall
low depression. The left collateral assure was
well defined, extending to the anterior extremi-
ty of the temporal lobe. The right was also
well marked, but did not extend so far back as
the other, and there was an attempt at condu-
ence anterlorly with the temporo-occipita
small bridge intervening. The left temporo-
occiptal fissure was well defined.
The following alone call for remark The as
cending frontal convolution was well defined on
each side. - The ascending parietal on the right
side was well developed in it's lower three
four his, but narrowed in the upper fourth On
the left side the narrowing was less marked.
The island of Rel presented on the right side
five fssures and SIX straight gyri; on the left
side seven assures and eight straight gyri. The
paracentral lobTle was well marked on the right
side, small on the left.
The usual median incision was made, and
the abdomen opened. There was an extrava-
sation of blood into the right pectoralis major
muscle near the second rib. The adipose layer
of the abdominal section was one inch in
thickness. The dome of the diaphragm ex-
tended up to the fourth rib on each side.
There were old pleuritic adhesions at the apex
of the right lung. The upper and middle
lobes were congenitaly united by connective
| tissue The lung was normal throughout.
There were also old pleurltic adhesions OF the
left lung to the diaphragm and between its
lobes; three small, tubercle-like, pigmented
patches were observed in the upper lobe.
The heart weighed ten and three-quarters
ounces. Its muscular substance was appar-
emily normal. There was an abundance of fat
upon its anterior surface, and Whose
patch of old pericarditis near the apex of the
left ventricle. The right ventricle contained a
little blood, just forming q clot The valves
were normal. The aorta was slightly athero-
matous for short distance above the valves.
All of the abdominal viscera presented large
accumulations of fat. They were normally sit
| uated
The liver was congested. The gall bladder
contained little bile. The spleen was lobu-
lated and enlarged. 1t weighed eighteen
ounces. The capsule was blush substance
brown. The malpighian bodies were hyper
trophled. The pancreas was normal. The
stomach contained food. The intestines ap-
peared normal, and were not opened. The
kidneys were congested. There was q small
superficial serious cyst on the right one.
| /. A considerable quantity of dark blood ran
out OF the heart in the separation of the heart
and lungs.
2. DR.. Young states that the man was sub-
Ject to malarial attacks while in jail.
! 8. He had eaten dinner about an hour and a
half before execution.
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