Medicine: Lamb's Will

His brain to be crocked in glass at Cornell University,* his skeleton to be mounted and displayed at Washington, his vital organs to be disposed here and there —such was the will of Dr. Daniel Smith Lamb, 85, Army autoptician, who died at Washington last week of pneumonia. During his long medical career he had performed 1,500 post mortems including those of President James Abram Garfield and his assassin Charles Jules Guiteau; and Grant's second Vice President, Henry Wilson,† "I, Daniel Smith Lamb," he wrote in his will, "object to burial or...

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