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President Garfield vertebrae (SP 386), National Museum of Health and Medicine
Description: Image of the vertebrae of President James A. Garfield, showing perforation by a bullet. Autopsied by Drs. Joseph Janvier Woodward and Daniel S. Lamb.
Text on verso reads: "Surgeon General’s Office, Army Medical Museum. Photographs Nos. 385, 386, 387, 388, and 389. Perforation of First Lumbar Vertebra, Death.
James A. G-------, was shot at Washington, July 2, 1881, by a ball from a pistol in the hands of an assassin. He died September 19, 1881. The autopsy revealed the course of the missile. It had entered over the tenth intercostal space, three and a half inches to the right of the vertebral spines, fractured the right eleventh rib, passed to the left through the body of the first lumbar vertebra, and lodged in the adipose connective tissue, immediately below the lower border of the pancreas, about two inches and a half to left of the spinal column, and behind the peritoneum. It had become completely encysted."
Date: 2 July 1881
Photo ID: SP 386
Source collection: OHA 82: Surgical Photographs
Repository: National Museum of Health and Medicine, Otis Historical Archives
Related material: SP 385, SP 387, SP 388, SP 389, PS 10800-1
Rights: No known restrictions upon publication, physical copy retained by National Museum of Health and Medicine. Publication and high resolution image requests should be directed to the NMHM (<a href="http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/" rel="nofollow">www.medicalmuseum.mil/</a>)
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