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autopsy performed by Dr. Lamb on Guiteau, the assassin, who was executed on 30 June 1882. Special attention was given to the brain, sections of which were parceled out to eminent alienists for examination, but no evidence of
unusual pathological change was found. 33[1]
Thus it was, that in the first 20 years of its life, the Museum attaches were called upon to participate in the activities growing out of the assassinations of two Presidents of the United States, and the Museum itself became the repository of the melancholy medical memorabilia of two great national tragedies.
- ↑ 33 (1) Lamb, op. cit., p. 83. (2) Lamb, Washington Medical Annals, 15 (1916), p. II. (3) Medical News, Philadelphia, volume 41, p. 13, 1882.
