Show POST rost MORTEM death demonstrated to have hare been inevitable sept 20 the following official bulletin waa was prepared at 11 tonight to night by the burgeons surgeons who have been in attendance on the late president by previous arrangements a post mortem examination of the body of president garfield w WM made this afternoon in the presence and with the assistance of drs hamilton hamilt t on agnew BI bliss ss barnes woodward I keyburn tey burn andrew 11 II smith of el b acron cron and acting assistant surge surgeon on D S lamb it was found the ball after fracturing the right eleventh rib had bad passed TUB SPINAL colwy COLLN if in front of the spinal canal fracturing the body of the first lumbar vertebra ra driving a number of email small fragee fragments ants of bone into the adjacent soft parts and lodging just below the pancreas about two inches and a half to the left of the a spine in e and behind the peritoneum etere where it had bad become completely Iven en the immediate cause of death was secondary hemorrhage from ono of the tile mesenteric arteries adjoining the track of the ball the blood rupturing the peritoneum and nearly a pint ases escaping into the abdominal cavity T tins I is hemorrhage hemorrhage is believed to have been the cause the severe pain in the lower part of the chest complained of just before death AM AN ABSCESS CAVITY six inches by four in dimensions wag was found in the vicinity of ortho the gall bladder between the liver and transverse colon which were strongly inter adhe rent it did not involve the substance su of the liver and no communication was found between it and iho wound along the suppora suppuration t ion a channel extended from the external wound between tile loin muscles and the right kidney almost to the right groin n this channel is now known to afe be duo to the tile burrowing of pus from the wound which was supposed duri during in life to lave have been the track of the b ball IF on examination of the organs of the chest OF bronchitis were found on both sides with bron chial pneumonia of the lower por fioris of the right lung and through u gh much less extent of the left T the lle lungs contained no abscesses and the heart no clots blots the liver was enlarge edaili fatty but free from abscesses nor were any found in any other organ ei except apt the left kidney which contained near its surface a small abscess about one third of an inch in diameter in reviewing the history of the case in connection with me autopsy it is quite evident that different SURrA SURFACES 03 and especially the fractured spongy tissue of the vertebra furnished but sufficient explanation of the septic condition which existed signed D W bliss J K barnes J J woodward robt reyburn F FIL 11 hamilton D 11 II agnew agnora Ag nowA A 11 smith D S iamb lamb the autopsy of the presidents body commenced about and was not concluded until nearly nearl A largo large crowd of people gathered at Elbe 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 neatly three quarters of an hour mrs garfield is beelin feeling much relieved since tho autopsy in as much aa as it resulted in establishing the fact that the patients WAS IH EVITABLE the point of the baliwas ball was somewhat blunt or ofa of a battered condition caused by the force with which it struck the rib while in other respects its ta ori original 91 shape was not altered bliss Blis took charge of the bullet and sealed it up for per e until the courts should require its production |