President James Garfield (photo courtesy Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n
What is not generally recognized is that Garfield lived for eleven weeks after being shot. The mortal injury occurred when a bullet partially transsected the splenic artery, eventually resulting in the days before antibiotics in an infected pseudoaneurysm that ruptured and caused exsanguination and a likely myocardial infarction.<\/p>\n
In James A. Garfield’s case, a likely case of probable abdominal sepsis from the bullet was no doubt furthered by the un therapeutic practice of the day that stressed digital probing (with non-sterile hands) of the bullet track to ascertain its path through the body.<\/p>\n
In modern trauma care, Garfield’s wound has an excellent chance at treatment and full-recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was assassinated in 1881 by gunman Charles J. Guiteau firing into his abdomen. He also suffered a grazing bullet wound to his arm. What is not generally recognized is that Garfield lived for eleven weeks after being shot. The mortal injury occurred when a bullet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,28],"tags":[4739,4741,4738,4740],"yoast_head":"\n
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