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On July 2, 1881, Bliss was summoned by Robert Todd Lincoln after James A. Garfield had been shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. Bliss examined Garfield's bullet wounds with his fingers and metal probes, concluding the bullet was in the President's liver.
A team of physicians was called to help the president, led by Doctor Willard Bliss. [4] Also called into assistance were Dr. Edson and a cousin of Garfield's, Dr. Silas A. Boynton. Edson was by Garfield's side more than any other physician with encouragement from Lucretia and the children who referred to Edson as, "Dr. Edson, full of Med'cin!"
[68] [69] Several inserted their unwashed fingers into the wound to probe for the bullet, and one doctor punctured Garfield's liver in doing so. Also, Bliss had supplanted Garfield's physician Jedediah Hyde Baxter. Bliss and the other doctors who attended Garfield had guessed wrong about the path of the bullet in his body; they had probed ...
Garfield, conscious but in shock, was carried to an upstairs floor of the train station. [45] Lincoln sent for D.C. Bliss, a prominent Washington physician, who soon arrived and examined Garfield's wounds several times, probing for the bullet that remained lodged in the president's body with his fingers and metal probes. Two additional doctors ...
View of the eastern side of the Mall in 1879. The Armory is the first square building on the right. Following the American Civil War's 1861 beginning, President Abraham Lincoln asked Doctor Willard Bliss to organize a system of hospitals in and around the city of Washington, D.C. [2] Among the facilities which resulted from this directive were several facilities which were built in or near ...
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The Harrisburg Telegraph announces Garfield's death, including the telegram sent to Arthur. Garfield's primary physician, Doctor Willard Bliss, did not believe in the nascent antiseptic procedures promoted by his contemporary Joseph Lister, [56] and Garfield's gunshot wound became infected through Bliss's non-sterile attempts to retrieve the ...