Guiteau's Brain- President Garfield's Assassinator
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Title
Guiteau's Brain- President Garfield's Assassinator
Subject
anatomy, crime, murder, guilty mind, head, medicine, nineteenth century, brain
Description
This is an image of the brain of Charles J Guiteau who shot president Garfield in 1881. With this specimen, you can see a real life "guilty mind." Guiteau was hung in 1882 where his brain was saved. Experts of the time said that the lob-sidedness or the degenration of the capilaries pointed towards mental illness.
Creator
Doctors from the Army Medical Museum in Washington D.C. preformed the auopsy on Guiteau.
Source
Orginal-the Army Medical Museum; Current- the National Museum of Health and Medicine at Mutter Museum.
Publisher
The Mutter Museum
Date
circa 1882
Contributor
Claire Mohandiss
Rights
The Mutter Museum, Philadelphia
Format
Human tissue, glass jar, fluid; still image
Language
English
Type
Human tissue
Coverage
nineteenth century criminal anatomy
Website Item Type Metadata
Local URL
http://memento.muttermuseum.org/detail/brain-of-a-presidential-assassin
Files
Citation
Doctors from the Army Medical Museum in Washington D.C. preformed the auopsy on Guiteau., “Guiteau's Brain- President Garfield's Assassinator,” Enlightenmens, accessed February 7, 2023, http://enlightenmens.lmc.gatech.edu/items/show/19.