Iron County register., 1882-07-20
auITEAus BODY.
DR.. Lambs Special Report Of tho Autopsy.

GUITEAUS BODY.
DR.. Lambs Special Report Of tho Autopsy.
i e. NEW YORK. July g.
The Medical Ne,us OF Philadelphia furnishes
the Western Associated Press with an advance
copy Of this weeks issue, which contains the
4 Official report Of the post-mortem examination
of the body OF Charles J. Guiteau. The report
Is signed by ID. s. Lamb, and is dated at the
Army Medical Museum, Washin9ton. D. G.,
July 4, and is, in substance, as follows
| BY reason Of delay for which neii her nor
| my assistants were responsible, the examina-
| ton was not begun until a:30 p. m. tone hour
| and half after deathl, IN consequence Of
| which the photographing was less saccessfui,
| and a cast was impracticable. The body,
which was Of faint yeliowish tint, was that
| of a man about FIVE feet seven inches in,
| height, and weighed 145 pounds. The eyes
ere tns papis sstly ~ and equally dated: the
vitreous was cloudy; the fundus undfs-
tinguishable; the conjunctiva of the left
| two hours later and noticed an appearance as
of transverse fracture of the lenses. A
ward ward. forward @ % 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 right parietal bone was slightly fsttened'
| over space about two inches square, Just
| back Of the frontal parietal suture, and to the
right of the interparietal there was a slight
hattened 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 Iongitud1naU
sinus. In thickness the skull presented moth
ing remarkable.
s MEMBRANES OF THE BRAIN.
The dura mater was firmly adherent~ to the
anterior portion Of the calvaria in the yicini-
| ty of the longitudinal sinus. There were adj
hesions of the dura also to the base of the
skull; they were quite firm, and stu-
ated in the several foss@. and most
marked in the deeper parts Of the fcssae.
where also there were small patches, alb
ruptly limited, of fmmovaDle arbOrescent con-
gesrion, with, however, mo attendant thicken-a
ing or fermentation. This stagnHfi0m was
again most marked in the left anterior and
middle fossR There was no congestion of
the dura except at the points just noted. The
dnra mater and pia mater were adherent t0
each other and to the brain ON both sides along
in the vicinity of the paechionian granular
tions. The dura was Slightly thicleened along
the ionGtudinal sinus 1t was also siigntIy
thickened and Opaque along q portion OF the
line Of the middle meningeal artery on each
side: The arachnoid Of the upper convexity
it covered the sulci, small patches Of
thickening and opacity: elsewhere 1t
was normal The pia mater sovn was AN an@m,
slight hypasfasis. The cerebral vessels ap-
peared to be normal in all respects. The or
many conical eminences of large sfze- There
was no roughening anywhere of the inner sur
face of the skull. The brain was fiFnA Its
weight. including cerebrum, cerebeliums pOnS
and medulla, and portion of the dura was
forty-nine and one-half ounces. It was slight
ly fattened in the region corresponding to the
fattening of the parietal bone above men,
toned. On section of the cerebrum. there
q m
however, gave depths of one,sixteenth to one
eighth inch in close proximity to!eaoh other.
anamic. The cerebeium and island of Reil
were both covered on each side. 42A2A+
THE FIssUREs.
The assures generally presented considera-
BILE depth-in many places, as in the right fs-
sure of Rolando, amounting to seven-eighths
of an inch The right fssure of Sylvius was
typical; the left was separated from the f-st
temporal fissure by slight bridge. deeply
situated. The right fssure of Rolando did not
connect with the fissure of Sylvius; the left
was separated only by agsnall bridge deeply
situated; both were separated from the fongiS
tudinal fissure The first frontal fissure on the
right side was not connected with that Of Ro-
secondary fissure; the same on the left side,
except that the fissure was crossed by a small
frontal assures presented nothing remarkable.
There were numerous secondary assures.
The Preeentral a and IL retrocenta ctr sfissures on
nected with the other fssnres.f The inter
parietal assures on each side termi,
only by a slight bridge. The par1eto-oecipftal
was well marked on each side The transverse
fined; it began on the median surface, and ex-
tended we'll outward. The first temporal fis-
sure was well developed on the right side: on
the left it was not of the usual length. Wer-
nicke's f1ssure was well marked ON the left
side, but not continent The calloso-marginal
tissure was double on each side, the upper Of
right the upper one extended back TO the an
terror teri no margin Of the @ the
on the right side to a. line about haif an inch
in front of the parfeto-occipitai tsssire. from
the left side. also, by bridge of larger size.
g-t oRBIrAL SURFACE. wee~y 20
On the right side were seven fissures ra1iat-
ing from the circular hssure Surrounding
sfuall Isolated 'conyolution On the Left side
were five assures. radiating FROM a. s1aall,
shallow depression. TIE left collateral fissure
was well defined, extending to the anterior ex-
tremity of the temporal lobe; the right was
also well marked, but did not extend SO far
back as the other, aud there was an attempt
at confluence anteriorly with the temporo-oc-
cipitai, q small bridge Intervening Thar left
-Occipital assure was we'll defined n
THE CoNyoLUTIoNs.
The following alone call for remark:
The ascending frontal was well defined on
each side The ascending parietaI on the right
side was well developed in its lower three
fourths, but narrowed in the upper fourth.
On the left side the narrowing was less
The island of Reil presented on the
right side five assures and six straight gyri,
On the left side seven assures and eight
straight gyri. The paracentral Iobuie was
well marked on the right side, small on the
left. -
THoRAx AND ABDOMEN.
The usual median incision was made and the.
opened. There was extravasation of
blood into the right pectoralis major muscle.
near the second rib. The adipose layer of the
section was one inch in thick,
hess. The dome of the diaphragm extended
Up to the fourth rib on each side There
we're old pleuritic adhesions at the apex
If the right lung. The upper and mid
lie lobes were congenitaly united by
tissue. The lung was normal
throughout There were also old pleuritic adj