When Booth Shot Lincoln - Great Graphic

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Toia, Dr. Taft wrote:

"The wound was there examined, the finger being used as a probe, aad the ball found to have passed beyond the reach of the finger into the brain. The respiration now become labored; pulse 44, feeble, eyes entirely closed, the left pupil much contracted, the right widely dilated; total insensibility to light in both. The left upper eyelid was swollen and dark from effused blood; this was observed a few minutes after his removal from the theatre. About 30 minutes after he was placed upon the bed, discoloration from the effusion began in the internal canthus of the right eye, which became discolored and swollen with great protrusion of the eye."