Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-01

into details in regard to the results thus far
reached. DR.. Hartigan left the jail, soon after
O'Clock, taking with him the brain.
Dr: Godding, who has maintai.ed that he
autopsy developed, az have nothing TO say"
Another physician remarked, 1--WE are
ALL KNOW NoTnINes.n
A bystander replied, $50 the uneducated
non-expert public thought at the time OF the
other autopsy"
AL the physicians agreed that there were
lymph~ in the brain and hardening OF the
dura mater. None Of them care to express a
positive opinion until after the examination
shall be completed.
DR.. Hartigan, who had the custody of the
brain, took it at 4:S0 to the army medical
museum where, in room set apart for pho
Geographic purposes, number OF surgeons and
physicians had assembled to continue the
autopsy. Among those present were Drs.
Nichols and Mcdonald, New York, and Drs
Elliot and aodding, Of Washing WssSu1p,
ton. The direction OF the operations
was by unanimous consent given to DR..
Lamb. 1t had been the intention of the sur
geons to begin by making plaster cast of
the brain with view to permanent presarva-
tioa IN that form of its confguration and ex-
ternal characteristics, but the organ was
found to be so soft and yielding as to render
had to
On account of the lateness of tie hour and
dull and overcast sky, the preparations were
necessarily hindered, but after placing the
brain In mass of curlad hair snch as that
ueed in upholstering and disposing
OF In the form which it had
during life, q number OF negatives
were taken OF it from various points Of view,
with more or less successful results. The ex.
animation Of the brain was then resumed.
This examination. which will include careful
microscopical study of the tissues and struc-
tural characteristics of the organ, will GER
tainly net be finished before tomorrow after.
noon and may occupy several days. The sur
geons and physicians who are participating
In the autopsy have pledged themselves not
To make public in the meantime any individ-
dual conclusions at which they may arrive, in
order that the official report when made may
have full weight and value as representing the
conclusion of sll the examining physicians.
RESULTS.
The results of the autopsy, so far as they
can be learned tonight from the surgeons
present, may be stated as follows: After
surveying the body externally. the surgeons
proceeded to lay open the brain cavity and
thcrax, and 10 examine the organs therein
contained. The brain was found to weigh
forty nine and one-half ounces, which is
little more than the weight of
the average human brain. 1t was well
formed and presented no external evidence
Of disease of Lesson. The lungs and heart were
in their normal condition, but there was a
slight rufing of the aorta In the vicinity Of
the heart. The neck was not dislocated or
fractured, as the surgeons at first supposed,
but there was q rupture of the sterno-cleido-
mastoid mrscle on both sides as well as of the
thyro-hyoid membrane. 1t follows, therefore,
that death resulted from suffocation and not
from dislocatiOn of the spinal vertebra. A
partial examination was MAIDS Of the abdom-
inal viscera, but it had not been completed at
the time the autopsy was suspended. The
spleen was found to be considerably enlarged,
its weight being fifteen ounces, or more than
twice that Of the normal spleen.
Other abdominal organs, as far as they
were examined, presented no unusual features.
The report OF the surgeons making the au.
topsy will probably not be ready for publica-
ton before Wednesday next.