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Show DEATH DEMONSTATED TO HAVE BEEN INEVITABLE. The following dispatch contains an account of the autopsy held on the body of President Garfield: El??, Sept. 20.-The following official bulletin was prepared at 11 o'clock to-night by the surgeons who have been in attendance on the late President. By previous arrangements a post mortem examination of President Garfield was made this afternoon in the presence ?? with the assistance of Drs. Hamilton, Agnew, Bliss, Barnen?, Woodward, ???, Andrew H. Smith of Elberon?, and Acting Assistant Surgeon D. S. ???. It was found the ball? after fracturing the right eleventh ?? had passed Through the spinal column In front of the spinal canal, fracturing the body of the first lumbar vertebra, ?? a number of small fragments of bone into the adjacent soft parts and lodging just below the pancreas, about two inches and a half to the left of the spine and behind the peritoneum where it had become completely en???. The ??? cause of death was secondary hemorrhage from ?? of the membrane??-ric?? Adjoining the track of the ball, the blood rupturing the peritoneum and nearly a ?? escaping into the abdominal cavity. This hemorhage [hemorrhage] is believed to have been the cause of the severe pain in the lower part of the chest, complained of just before death. An abcess [abscess] cavity, Six inches by four in dimensions, was found in the s??? of the gall bladder, between the liver and transverse colon, which were strongly inter adherent. It did not inv?? The substance of the liver, and no communication was found between it and the wound. Along the suppuration a channel expended from the external wound between the loin muscles and the right kidney, almost to the right groin. This channel is now known to be due to the narrowing? harrowing? of pus from the wound, which was supposed during life? to have been the track of the ball. On examination of the organs of the chest. ??? of ??? were found, on both sides, with iron chial??? Pneumonia of the lower portion of the right lungs, and through much less extent of the left. The liver was enlarged and fatty, but free from al???, not were any found in any other organ except the left kidney which con?? near its surface a small al?? about one third of an inch in diameter. In reviewing the history of the case in connection with the autopsy, it is quite evident that different?? ??? rating surfaces, and especially the fractured spongy tissue of the vertebrae, furnished sufficient explanation of the septic condition which existed. Signed, D.W. Bliss, J.K. Barnes, L?. J. Woodward, R?? Rexburn?, F. ?. Hamilton, D. ?. Agnew, A.H. Smith, ?. S. Lun??. The autopsy of the President's body commenced about 5 o'clock and was not ??? until nearly 8. A large crowd of people gathered at Elberon?? To hear the result. Bliss stated that the autopsy had been very tedious and the time occupied in searching for the ball alone occupied nearly three quarters of an hour. Mrs. Garfield in feeling much relieved since the autopsy, has much as ??resulted in establishing the fact that the patient's Death was inevitable. The point of the ball was somewhat blunt or of a tattered? condition, caused by the force with which it struck the rib, while in other respects its original ??? was not altered. Bliss took charge of the bullet and sealed it up for preservation until the courts should require its production. |
