Edward Anthony Spitzka
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| Born | June 17, 1876 |
| Died | September 4, 1922 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | anatomist |
| Known for | Leon Czolgosz's brain autopsy |
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Edward Anthony Spitzka (June 17, 1876 – September 4, 1922) was an American anatomist who autopsied (29 Oct 1901) the brain of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of president William McKinley.[1] (In 1881, his father Edward Charles Spitzka, a famous neurologist and medical specialist in mental diseases, testified to the insanity of Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President James A. Garfield, at Guiteau's murder trial.)
Dr. Edward Anthony Spitzka was the author of 40 papers on brain anatomy. Widely recognized as one of the world's leading brain anatomists, he directed the Baugh Institute of Anatomy[2] until 1914. Dr. Spitzka performed post mortem examinations of the brains of many distinguished American men, including Prof. Edward Drinker Cope, Prof. Joseph Leidy, Prof. Harrison Allen, Dr. William Pepper, George Francis Train, and Major John Wesley Powell.[3][4]
[edit] Publications
- Co-edited (with J.C. DaCosta) Seventeenth American Edition of Gray's Anatomy (Sept. 1908).[5]
- Edited Eighteenth American Edition of Gray's Anatomy (Oct. 1910).[5]
- Edited Nineteenth American Edition of Gray's Anatomy (July 1913).[5]
[edit] References
- ^ *Haines, D E (1995). "Spitzka and Spitzka on the brains of the assassins of presidents". Journal of the history of the neurosciences 4 (3–4): 236–66. doi:10.1080/09647049509525641. ISSN 0964-704X. PMID 11619027.
- ^ Daniel Baugh Institute's website
- ^ "SPITZKA, Edward Anthony". Who's Who in New York City and State, 4: p. 1221–1222. 1909. http://books.google.com/books?id=klcDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1221.
- ^ "DR. SPITZKA DIES OF APOPLEXY". NY Times. Sept 6, 1922.
- ^ a b c Carmine D. Clemente, ed. (1985). Gray’s Anatomy (30th ed.). Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger. ISBN 0-8121-0644-X. pp.vi-ix
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