The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-10-17
Mckln|ey's Doctors Make Grave
Omission In Report.
READ IN PART BY Or. MANN
Before the New York State Medical Suc|siy.
No emphatIcaIIy Denies Sicy
Of Disagreement y

victim to an assassin's bullet have bee
unable 10 assign the exact cause of nj
oeath Their official report has bee
completed. and portions Of II were rea
py Dr. Matthew ID. Mann at meeting o
lne state Medical society, in the Acad
emy OF Medicine, ia West Forty-thir,
street yesterday.
III Is a"oocument Of fifteen thousan n,
words, and will be submitted TO the ca bi
net and 10 congress
| Although the doctors testifed o., ~.
trial OF Czolgosz with more or less ase
hIteness that death was caused by blood
| poisonlng from gangrene the report
Which IL a complete medical history ot
the case from the moment OF the shootine
unul the completion OF the autopsy. fails
10 assign any specific cause OF death. The
report caused a sensation among the
| medical men who heard a.
Dr. mann was specially delegated by
t,e surgeons who attended President Ne
| hlhley 10 present a synopsis of theIr re
port 10 the state medical society. II will
pe recalled that he was the FIRST surgeon
20 reacn the presidents side when he fell
| IN the Temple Of Music. and that he ner-
FORMED the operation I'm the hosni,si a.
said: NAnh
AZ you should ask me what caused the
PRESIDENTS death ! could not teu Won 7
Dt -. II anyone could do so. or that n
WI eNer De determined. Among the con-
IA. causes were the presidents age.
nh weak heart, which was indicated hv
MS hlgh pulse, and his lack OF EXERCISE :,
LACK OF HARMONY DENIED
Dr. herman Mynter of Buffalo anotber
OF the surgeons in the case was nrssan,
,,l'1, Seiu thAt the actual cause OF death
denia, ny oe determined. Both physicians
an,n's,a !,ld tnat any lack or harmony existed
among those In attendance upon the pres-
Iuent The report is signed by prs Nj
NEW d. Mann, r. NJ Rixev. Herr,an
MNhter' Roswell Park Eugene wa.d,n
and Charles McBurney. '
mere were about two hundred mem-
,",,s, oi the state medical society i'm at
lendance at yesterdays meeting u,htch
MAS the first OF n two dsIs, sas.,o -.
pefs were read on various technicaI To-
lcs ana DR.. Mann was on the prorran, o.
one or these, but DIR. Henry u Elsnar =,
syracuse, president OF the society an
nDunced n at the morning session that DR.
dor,,. "uiu read report on the presi-
uehts case I'm the afternoon
AT DR.. Manns request All nousna
were excluded during tbe
Ieauihg or the report. lie explained ths,
~, iVai ethics required that the renor,
pe hrst gi.en TO medical periodicals
rom printed slips Dr. Mann read some \
I more interesting parts Of the re- \
port' lie explained al intervals noin,s -, /
made clear, and summarized sectio,,s ~ 10,
'eauihg or which would prove tedious
DOES NOT DESCRIBE SHOOTING
Dr. Mann did not describe the sboo,,nr
,e reAd from the report beginning viii
I'VE ,,es s.ns OF the wound and the prep
lor the incision. Continuing ne
,,a.. iui. ,echnical description Of the
operation. This did nor vary fro,, ~. e
'orts published in the Herald AZ tbs 49,.
ie described Mr.. McKinley's oondt,ia
ls esnP'oms and the treatment after IN.
peiauon. The favorable progress 81 ~.
'sueht from day 20 dsy was told IN Se~
al TOT the six days before alarmInx
ymptoms were manifested
our bulletins were not r,,s,.oa,,
ara Dr Mann. Every indiostion rs.
nav tne patient was making favnrshIa
roeress up TO the seventh 6av uhar r.
esan 10 fail He then failed rsn,dlv ,,s
ltnough everything possible was dors 4,
WIlholt result There was sbsol,Itslv
/. -. eennent as TO the treatment. bur |
lony' PeiieSt mar
Ut mann referred TO the auton.y h.. I
"a not read IL. lie said the bullet hsd ro,
zen 'ound. and that IL had not passed
trough the pancreas
naI would have been an anatomical,
~, npossIolilty' said DIR. Mann. He also
10 that there was no bacter,oIost. a..
ction, and that the absorntIon 81 80.
incfeauc huid had not contributed to- :
ara causing the presidents death.
NO USE FOR RoETGEN RAYS
Speaking of the failure to Iocat. the
ilet ny the use OF N-rays DIR Manr )
10 mat SO long as the bullet was doing Z
harm there WAS no urgent necessI,S ;
has |
nent 10 the Roetgen rays would have
en- harmful I'm ais weakened condition | =
IN "ouiu nave done no good Referrinv | y
am 20 the autopsy DR.. Mann said thai a
puHet had not been found although h
reidl search had been made for n y
When Dr Mann finished. Dr. Herman y
ynter said that "a was the unaninous -
inion or the surgeons that the nresi- :,
nv chances for recovery were good nm ri
the seventh day, when unfavorahls ol
mptoms were first shown. lie said that N
bulletins correctly reported the CON
ION OF the patient, and that no at
npt was made at any time 10 color
I'm, one way or the other.
peakine Of the conduct OF the ,rss, | Ci
m. Dr. Mynter said: or
The Christian charity with which 10,
esident Mckinley treated his assassin si'
had only one parallel in history. and Of
u was 1900 years ago. do not consid es
~ SaCi ltk'ous 10 compare the conduct &c
mckinley toward Czolgosz TO that Of an
rist toward Judas. who betrayed
N" ha
PANCREAs NOT A FACTOR. on
r. Mynter also said that the psncreat-
luid was not factor I'm producing 70
th. and that he agreed >yith Or. Mann H'
Z no definite cause of death could be x
,bllshed &C
hysicisns who listened 20 the state diff
lt of Drs. Mann and Mynter expressed ]
prisce a. the failure 90 name the cause or
iesth. AZ the trial OF Czolgosz on ga
tember - and o. Dr. Mynter testified:
The cause % death was blood poison- gri
from the absorption of poisonous mat dr.
caused by gangrene" mo-
:. Harvey " Gaylord. another az.
liant physician. testified The actual cal
'e was The Absorption or broken down or
ter ~ the pancreas" arc