U.S. President William McKinley was shot in the abdomen at close range in 1901. He was rushed to a clinic where gynecological surgeon Matthew Mann operated on McKinley’s wound. The president died eight days later from necrotizing pancreatitis due to infection. Afterward, Dr. Herman Matzinger did a thorough autopsy to determine whether McKinley died from the gunshot wound or the botched surgery, or from some weird theories like the assassin used poison or bacteria on the bullet. He concluded that the gunshot caused the president’s death.
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More than a century later, Dr. Matzinger’s notes from the autopsy were found by his family and were put up on auction earlier this month. They reveal how Matzinger came to conclusions in his report, and revealed the lengths he went to in studying the president’s infection. He grew cultures of the bacteria from McKinley’s body and injected them into several rabbits and one dog! That experiment was unknown until the discovery of Matzinger’s documents. Read about the assassination, the autopsy, and the animal experiments at LiveScience. -via Strange Company
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Source: neatorama