Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-10-21
McKlNLEYS DOCTORS
HAVE MADE THEIR
OFFICIAL REPORT.
They We're and Are Harmonious In All Their
Findings.
Findings.

The report contains upwards or hr-
teen thousand words, ana is signed
by Drs. p. NJ. Rixey, Matthew d.
Mann, Herman Mynter, Roswell Park.
Eugene Wasdln, Charles McBurney,
and Charles @. Stockton, as members
of the medical staff attending the late
President.
The report Of the autopsy Is signed
by DR.. Harvey II. Gaylord, Patholo-
gist Of the New York State Patholo-
glcal Laboratory, while the report on
the meteorological examination bears
the signature of DR.. Herman q. Mat
Finger, Bacteriologist to the New
York State Pathological Laboratory.
The important feature of the re-
port is the emphasis with which DR..
Matthew d. Mann, speaking for his
colleagues, declares that never un-
der like circumstances was there a
more harmonious and better agreed
band Of consultants," thus setting
aside oil rumors of disagreement
among attending physicians and sur
geons.
In his comments on the report Ol
the operation, Dr. Mann particularly
emphasizes the disadvantages under
which he labored when suturing the
wounds i'm the stomach, with the fail
ing light of September afternoon.
Later on in the operation n movable
= electric light was used with advan-
I tage.
p Speaking of the search for the bull
let during the operation, the report
+ says: "rhe operation on the stom-
nch now being finished, DR.. Mann in
troduced his arm so as to palpate
o carefully all the deep structures be-
+ hind the stomach. No trace of the
: bullet, or of the further track of the
$ bullet, could be found. AS the intro
d duction of the | and In this way seem
e ed to have a bad influence on the
Presidents pulse, prolonged search for
further injury done by the bullet, OF
for the bullet itself was desisted
FROM IA
Further search might have caused
the death of the patient upon the op
Grating table. At the close of the
operation the surgeons present unan
imously assured DR., Mann, In ans
,. wer to his questions. that they were
t. perfectly satisfied that everything that
l. was possible had been done, and that
n they had no further suggestions t.
Is make.
It The findings ut the autopsy, as wei
d as the developments of the case dur
ing the last days, exclude all possi
bility of the absolute injury to tn
II stomach by premature giving OF soli
~ food, as was alleged at the time whe
'e unfavorable symptoms came on al
T.. ter change to solid diet.
ct On the fifth day the President sir
hr ped hot water, on the sixth day h
er had beef juice, the first food taken b
t. mouth since the operation. In til
meanwhile, nutritive enemas we,
continued, but were not well retail
ed. At $50 in the morning of til
seventh day, he was allowed chicke
broth, a very small piece of toast, an
ne n cup of coffee. He did not care ft
the toast and ate scarcely any of
The wound had in the meanwhi
been doing very well, ana had bee
~ dressed daily after the removal {
the stitches and the sloughing tissu
" The President seemed at his hes
and n favorable result was now co
fidently predicted, There was l
h. sign of blood poisoning or Of intiar
nation of the peritoneum. The on
ui'i SN'hPNo" ""S hp '"P
=, pulse, but as the President natural
had rather rapid pulse, and as
had been of fairly good quality rig
or along, the surgeons did not attribu
very great importance to this sign.
on the seventh day, towards moo
the pulse began to grow weaker, al
grew rapidly worse. Stlmulan
We're given and the food discontinue
81 while castor oil and enema OF q
gall were given TO move the bowe
At midnight there was an improy
w ment in the pulse, after an injecti
''' of salt solution into the subcutaneo
"' tissues.
On the eighth day the condition
"" the President was described as We
serious, ms he did not respond TO sti
ulation. Stimulants and injection
of salt solution coffee and broth WI
flor given, but without much effect,
you 3 o'clock oxygen was given and CO
'on tinued for some hours. At $3.50 I
an