Figure 19.—The bullet that ended President Lincoln's life, the instrument used to locate it, and bone fragments which adhered to it.
medical artist at the Museum, of the earliest and most accurate sketch of the scene at the deathbed of the President. Mr. Faber, a German artist enlisted as a hospital steward and assigned to the work of what would now be called medical illustration, entered the Petersen house, in which Mr. Lincoln had died, immediately after the removal of the body. Nothing had been disturbed, and the sketch made was approved for accuracy by Surgeon General Barnes, who had been one of the physicians attending the President and who was present at his death. The original of the sketch is among the exhibits at the Medical Museum (fig. 21).[1]
- ↑ (1) Purtle, Helen R.: Lincoln Memorabilia in the Medical Museum of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 32: 68-74, January-February 1958. Miss Purtle's article discusses interestingly the various Lincoln items in the Museum, and gives an account of the acquisition of each one, which was mostly by gift. (2) Original sketch was presented on 30 January 1933, by Erwin F. Faber, son of Hermann Faber, to the Army Medical Museum. Letter on file in historical records of AFIP.
