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 THE DEATH OF MCCULLOUGH.
 A Blood CIot In one of The Arteries The Cause of His Insanity.
 PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18.-An autopsy on the brain of the late John Mccullough was held this morning in the receiving vault at Monument cemetery. It was conducted by Dr. Hugo Engel, professor of nervous dis eases and clinical medicine at the Medico- Chirurgical college of this city, who attended the tragedian after his removal to this city from the Bloomingdale asylum, assisted by Charles K. Mills, M. D., lecturer on nervous diseases at the University of Pennsylvania and professor of the Poly Clinic, and by Frank Woodbury, M D., professor of thera- peutics at the Medico- Chirurgical college and editor of the Philadelphia Medical Times. There were present number of other physi- cians and surgeons connected with the col leges and hospitals of the city, including J. M. Barton, of Jefferson college, J. H. Lloyd, instructor in nervous diseases at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, Dr. B. F. Hardy of California, N. l.. Hummel, M D., editor of the Medical Bulletin, W. B. D. B1ackwood, late of Jefferson college, and others. John Mccullough, the actors oldest son, was pres ent as Q representative of the family.
 1ro, xI. and scissors Dr. Engel and Dr. Mills made a careful examination. On it's outer coating numerous granulations were found and the veins were discovered to be congested. Be- heath this coating was whitish- gray depos- it, which Dr. Engel declared carried out his theory that the cause of death was blood poisoning and not progressive insanity as had been asserted by the Bloomingdale asy Ium physicians. The matter over the cere- bellum was thick and mutky, and the tissues were very adherent, it being almost impossible to separate the two anterior lobes of the brain. The removal of the pia mater from the anterior lobe was found extremely diff cult, and the walls of the brain were fonnd much harder than is usual. The right and left middle cerebrals and the bssilar artery NCAO IsihoI OuG tu0 TetdlIoO LOT nlCfOSCOplC examination. All the main arteries were fully one-half less in ealibre than usual. The brain was not half as soft as is usually found in person dead only forty-eight hours. It was unusually large and the skull very thick. The skull cap was symmetrical and the brain was highly developed. There were no marks of what is termed general paralysis. At the conclusion of the post morteIn a consultation of the physicians present was had, and the following state ment was issued from them as official: The physicians assembled find that there was a dsease of the blood vessels of the brain due to blood poison and that the besilar artery and the middle cerebral alteries were the ones affected; that the pia mater was opaque over large part of the c0nveity of the bI ain and was adherent, espe cially in the fronto- o-parietal region BrocaS convolution and le Assure of Rolando. In various places on attempting to strip the pia mater it was found that small fragments of cortcal tissue away with the membrane. Neither tumors nor ab- scesses discovered. The morbid conditions fully explained the symptoms evinced during life
 The autopsy is stated to have fully sub stantiated Dr. EngeTs theory that McCul- l Iough's mental abe1 ration was due to the dis l ease known as Thrombosis" which is the l of thrombus or elot of blood in l one of the arteries, thus blocking the free l circulation of the blood through the brain. 1 Dr. Engel always contended that the forma- l ion of one of these thrombi was the cause l 0f the trouble. Dr. Engel was confident that l if he could carry Mccullough through for | thirty days without the formation of an- | other thrombus he could cure him, but at | he end of two weeks the second obstruction | Tas found and death ensued.