The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-08
Autopsy Showed Clots On
Brain.
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was stitched up. Also a seWed-up
slit under left arm and inside of left
thigh-slit stitched up, also made by
embalmer. One Scalp-WOund about
the junction of temporal and parietal
bones, on left side, running anterioraly
and posterioraly, two inches long and
about two inches from the anterior
margin Of hair, extending down to
the bone" When you say, Extending
down to the bone" what do you mean
A. Extending through the thin perios-
teum to the bone.
@. What is the periosteum? A. A
thin membrane that covers the bone.
g. Is it the last covering that covers
the bone beneath the skin and flesh
A. 1t is.
@. What could that cut have been
made with? A. Some blunt instru-
ment of some kind. 1t was not n
clean cut like it was made with a
knife. 1t didn't have the edges of
a tear.
@. ION right forehead over eye,
scratches, small skin wounds. On left
cheek, just below the outer angle of
left eye, what appears to be a fatty
tumor. That has been there for some
time On the breast, both right ana
left at upper edge of sternum? A.
Breast-plate of breaSt-bone. Those
scratches were situated on each side
barely touched the skin.
@. Moving hair from scalp, is found
over right parietal bones, a skin bruise
on scalp" Show the jury what that
was. Indicates, using head of
juror for illustrating location of
bruise) A, 1t was skin bruise-no
cut
@. What was the appearance i'm
mediately underneath the scalp UNI
der this bruise? A. A mass of Goa
gulated blood--a clot.
@. Was that coagulated blood in
and underneath the periosteum?
A. l think it was beneath the peri
osteum.
Removing hair from scalp,
find scalp bruises at Nthe junction be
tween the parietal and occipital
bones" Explain to the jury the To-
cation of that. Indicates, using head
of a juror for illustrating the location
of bruise.)
@. "Also scalp bruise over the oc-
cipftal bone, near the junction of ar
ticulations between parietal and oc-
cipital bones, which extends down
to the periosteum down to the skull.
Do you mean that the entire thick
ness of the scalp was bruised down
to the periosteum? A. The appear
ance of the scalp was that it was
bruised down to the skull.
@. "The bruises upon the right and
left parietal bone and under all these
scalp bruises is coagulated blood, I'M
der periosteum-giVin the appear
ance of blood-ahot. There was 4
bruise upon the external surface OF
left forearm" CThe foregoing did not
need eXplanation)
O. eve find upon the surface of the
left ventricle, about the junction OF
the lower middle third, a small open
ing, about the size Of a crow quill
We find lungs intact and normal. with
out evidence of congestion" What is
your opinion of the cause of that
opening. A. My opinion is that it
was made by the instrument of the
embalmer. if not that, why of course,
it was bound to be a rupture in the
wall of the heart.
G. Removing scalp from Uranium
and removing the top of the Uranium
upon a line around head, dividing the
forehead in half from above down
ward, said line running level around
the head, through the occipital bone,
we find the inside Uranium clot of
blood, which extends pOsteriorly at
the falXcerebri on right side nearly
under bruiSe above described Inc
bleeding producing the clot came
from a slit or rupture in the menin-
the junction between the parietal and
occipital bones and between right and
left hemisphere of brain, in the medl-
an cOnVultion." How large is that cIOt
of blood describe it? a. l would say
about as large as a dime in surface.
Q. Describe the whole clot at the
top, describe the size of 1t and deS-
cribe how it extends down to the falE
cerebri What was the size of the clot?
I a
meningeal membrane was about as
large. and thick as a butter bean,
continuing down to where it rested
on the falxcerebri. / don't know any
thing to compare to size except put
ter bean. 1 would say a sthick as a
butter bean if not thicker. l cannot
tell exactly.
Q. Do l understand you to mean
by butter bean a large butter bean? A
Yes, sir; something about the size of
my thumb.
Q. Now describe to the jury what
YOU mean by a falx cerebri? A. a
continuation of the meningeal mem
brane which extends into the silcus
separating the cerebellum from the
cerebri.
Q. Where do you think this bleeding
came from that produced this clot? "A.
1t came from the rupture in the men
1nSedl 1leDlDTdne WHICH, nav 49,"
cribed above.
Q. What is your opinion of the cause
of that slit in the mening membrane
A. Some violence of force in some way
on the head.
The congestion of the blood vessels
and force on the head would be SuIil-
cient to produce rupture.
O. Behind the left ear we ma
bruise and a considerable mass of Goa
fulated blood and fluid blood oozlhg
from stylomastold fOramen.
O. Was the bruise surface behlnd
the ear that you discovered similar
one with similar conditions to those
that YOU have described heretofore
A. 1t was.
O. at is my opinion this man came
to his death from compression upon
the brain from clot and If the opening
described in the heart should not nave
been made by the embalmer, dedtn
was contributed to by both the plot
and the opening, and to fatty de-
generation of the heart. either OF
which. the clot or the opening, would
have produced death.
@. Describe what you mean by rat
ty generation of the heart? A. me
heart is a muscular organ, ana tatty
degeneration is an accumulation OF