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Source: Reading Eagle Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Dr. Shrady Sorry the X-Ray Was Not Used” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Reading, Pennsylvania Date of publication: 17 September 1901 Volume number: 34 Issue number: 233 Pagination: 1 |
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| “Dr. Shrady Sorry the X-Ray Was Not Used.” Reading Eagle 17 Sept. 1901 v34n233: p. 1. |
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| George F. Shrady; William McKinley (medical care: use of X-rays); William McKinley (death, cause of); McKinley assassination (poison bullet theory). |
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| William McKinley; Roswell Park; George F. Shrady. |
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Dr. Shrady Sorry the X-Ray Was Not Used
New York: Dr. George F. Shrady regrets exceedingly
that the X-ray was not used at once on the President, to find the ball and extract
it. Dr. Shrady shares the belief of Dr. Park that death was due to blood poisoning,
caused by penetration of the pancreas as the bullet passed through Mr. McKinley’s
body and the escape of the pancreatic juices, which flooded the bullet track
and induced gangrene of the tissues. When this gangrenous affection became general
the case was hopeless.
Other doctors think that a verdigris collection
on the old bullet and copper cartridge may have poisoned the President’s wound.