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Title: Buffalo medical journal
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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fruits of theblood-red victory of anarchy. The nurses and the hospital corpsmen of the United States Army moved softly about. Dr. Rixeystood by the side of the form in which barely a breath was left. THE END. Outside the wind rustled the leaves of the trees the Presidentloved so well. In the adjoining- room slept the wife, mercifullyunconscious of the ag-ony of the scene which was being: enactedso near her. The respirations became g-asps; slower and slower,then halting-. Dr. Rixey leaned far forward over the Presidentand raised his hand in warning:. A sob broke the awesomesilence of the room—a sob which was stifled. The g:asping- ofthe President had ceased. Dr. Rixey straig:htened up, his facedrawn with the ag-ony of his suffering:. A faint sig:h fluttered atthe Presidents lips, and his head sunk into the pillow like thatof a man falling- into a deep sleep. An orderly of the hospital corps stepped silently to the footof the bed and stood rig:idly at attention, his eyes to the front.
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220 SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS. And to the four corners of the world flashed the final bulletin:The President died at 2.15. They turned down the lig-hts in the room and left the deadPresident alone with a white-clad, spectral g-uard. THE OFFICIAL BULLETINS. The official story of the Presidents case is tersely and .scientifically told in these bulletins. The men signing- themwere Dr. P. M. Rixey, the Presidents physician; Dr. M. D.)\Iann, Dr. Roswell Park, Dr. Herman Mynter, Dr. EugeneWasdin, Dr. Charles )\IcBurney, Dr. Charles G. Stockton and^Nlr. George B. Cortelyou, secretary to the President. The bodyof each bulletin is given as it was issued but, for the sake ofbrevity, the last names of the signers only are printed. Friday, September 6, 7 p.m.—The President was shot about 4 p.m. One bullet struck him in the upper portion of thebreast bone, glancing and not penetrating. The secondbullet penetrated the abdomen five inches below the leftnipple and one and one-half inches to the left of

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