The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-10-22
REPORT OF DR.. MANN.
Does Not Know What Caused
McKinley's Death.
90 He TOLD ROCHESTER DOCTORS

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Surgeon Who Performed the opera
tion On the President AFTER the
shooting at BunaIo Thinks Atrophy
of the Heart aud Necrosis of the
Kidney Were Chiefly ResponsibIe.
II was the privilege of the physicians
of Rochester, or, rather, Of those who
belong TO the academy OF Medicine. to
| hear first the report of DIR. Matthew
ID. Mann of the Buffalo Medical col
lcge, who performed the operation on
President Mckinley
The most significant statement made
by DR.. Mann was this. "Gentlemen,
| do not know what killed the prcsi-
dent, but | think that the cause Of
death was the fact that the walls Of
the right ventrlcle OF the heart were
very thin and atrophied" Dr. Mann
laid particular stress upon the fact
that the right Ventrlclc was afflicted
with acute brown atrophy, and he
seemed to wish the physicians to infer
that this trouble was the real cause Of
death Dr Mann said that during the
presidents Illness his pulse was rapid
but This symptom was not considered
10 hc alarming. Dr Mann also EN-.
phasizcd the fact that the president
bad never taken any exercise beyond
that obtained In walking
Oa the second day after the shoot.
ing. Dr. Mann said, he found that two
of the stitches In the presidents alb.
dOmcn had pulled out Nothing was
thought OF this fact, because the
spreading Of stitches is common in
such wounds. DR.. Mann's report also
touched upon the failure OF the sur.
geons TO use the y ray i'm their en-
dcavor to locate the bullet
lie did not think il would have been
wise TO use the y ray under the cir.
cumstances, holding that it would have
put the president TO a great deal of
inconvenience and that there was not
one chance in twenty of the machine
revealing anything of Importance. Dr.
Mann considered the use of the y ray
dangerous before the operation and
more so after It had been performed.
Dr. Mann justified the action of him
self and his associates in sending out
the optimistic bulletins and in assuring
the public that the president was on
the road to recovery, because, as he
stated, there was absolutely nothing In
the executives condition 10 give them
any cause for alarm. He seemed 20
be progressing finely, and none of the
doctors had any doubt that he would
make n complete and rapid recovery
On the morning when the president
took a turn for the worse he suffered Il
sinking spell, his pulse going up and
his temperature down. His pulse ac-
tion was not considered as alarming as
was his failure to respond TO the hypo.
dcrmic injections OF strychnne and
whisky which were being administered
10 sustain life.
Dr. Mann in his report gave the
presidents blood count day 10y day aud
said that all during the chief magis
trates Illness the physicians felt un.
easy because of the fact that the pa
tents blood condition remained nor
NAL Under the circumstances, and IL
the patient was making favorable re-
spOnse TO treatment, there should have
been a noticeable increase In the white
corpuscles. This was not the case. and
the lack OF such an increase gave the
doctors their first scare. DR.. Mann
said that the autopsy revealed several
important facts that helped in way
to explain the presidents demise.
In searching for the bullet the sur.
geon's knife revealed back of the
stomach and In the region of the
spleen. small pocket containing ne
crotic tissue. the origin OF which re-.
mains "A mystery to the physicians.
Even In the meteorological eXamina.
uon following the autopsy no evidence
OF septic poisoning was found, dis
proving the assertion that surgery
could have prevented death None OF
the germs usually responsible for
death from blood poisoning was found,
even in the pocket containing the dead
tissue.
The autopsy showed that the bullet
passed through the upper portion of
the kidney and that this organ was
also necrotic. DIR. Mann considered
the necrotic condition Of the kidney
and the atrophy OF the heart chiefly re-
sponsible for the presidents death
He did not think that il lay within the
power of any surgeon TO save the
presidents life in view Of the defects
in his bodily organism mentioned
above.
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