The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States, Including Full and Accurate Details of His Eventful Administration, Assassination, Last Hours, Death, Etc., Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and LettersBrown, E. E. (Emma Elizabeth)
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The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States, Including Full and Accurate Details of His Eventful Administration, Assassination, Last Hours, Death, Etc., Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and Letters
Brown, E. E. (Emma Elizabeth)
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Presidents -- United States -- Biography
The surgeons assisting at the autopsy were unanimously of the opinion
that, in reviewing the history of the case in connection with the
autopsy, it was quite evident that the different suppurating surfaces,
and especially the fractured, spongy tissue of the vertebra, furnished a
sufficient explanation of the septic conditions which existed during
life. About an hour after the post-mortem examination was completed the
physicians named at the commencement of this report assembled for
further consultation in an adjoining cottage. A brief outline of the
results of the post-mortem examination was drawn up, signed by all the
physicians, and handed to Private Secretary J. Stanley Brown, who was
requested to furnish copies to the newspaper press.
D. W. BLISS.
J. K. BARNES.
J. J. WOODWARD.
ROBERT REYBURN.
D. S. LAMB.
As the above report contains paragraphs detailing the observations made
at Washington on the pathological specimens preserved for that purpose,
the names of Drs. J. H. Hamilton, D. Hayes Agnew, and A. H. Smith, are
not appended to it. It has, however, been submitted to them, and they
have given their assent to the other portions of the report.
III.
SENATOR HOAR'S ADDRESS.
I should indulge myself in a strange delusion if I hoped to say anything
of President Garfield which is not already well known to his countrymen,
or to add further honor to a name to which the judgment of the world,
with marvelous unanimity, has already assigned its place. The public
sorrow and love have found utterance, if not adequate, yet such as
speech, and silence, and funeral rite, and stately procession, and
prayers, and tears could give. On the twenty-sixth day of September, the
day of the funeral, a common feeling stirred mankind as never before in
history. That mysterious law, by which, in a great audience, every
emotion is multiplied in each heart by sympathy with every other, laid
its spell on universal humanity. At the touch which makes the whole
world kin, all barriers of rank, or party, or State, or Nation
disappeared. His own Ohio, the State of his birth and of his burial, New
England, from whose loins came the sturdy race from which he descended,
whose college gave him his education, can claim no pre-eminence in
sorrow.
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