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June 7th, 2012 
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“What’s fascinating about this report is its immediacy and its clinical,
just-the-facts approach,” Stowell said. “There’s not a lot of
flowery language, not a lot of emotion.”
A researcher for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Helena Iles Papaioannou, found
the report among the U.S. surgeon general’s April 1865 correspondence, filed
under “L” for Leale.
Physicians continue to debate whether Lincoln could have lived with modern
medicine and whether actions such as probing the wound as Leale did
contributed to his demise. Trauma treatment was in infancy in 1865, and
Leale’s report illustrates “the helplessness of the doctors,”
Stowell said. “He doesn’t say that but you can feel it.”
Leale wrote a report for an 1867 congressional committee investigating the
assassination that referenced the earlier account, but no one had ever seen
it, said Stowell, whose group’s goal is to find every document written by or
to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime.
At least four researchers have been painstakingly scouring boxes of documents
at the National Archives for more than six years. They methodically pull
boxes of paper – there are millions of records packed away and never
catalogued, Stowell said – and look for “Lincoln docs,” as
Papaioannou called them.
She was assigned the surgeon general’s mail and was leafing through letters
pitching inventions for better ambulances and advice about feeding soldiers
onions to ward off disease when she hit Leale’s report, likely rewritten in
the neat hand of a clerk.
“I knew it was interesting. What we didn’t know was this was novel,”
Papaioannou said. “We didn’t know that this was new, that this was an
1865 report and that it likely hadn’t been seen before.”
Leale, who was 23 and just six weeks into his medical practice when Lincoln
died, never spoke or wrote about his experiences again until 1909 in a
speech commemorating the centennial of the president’s birth.
While Leale’s report includes little sentiment, Ms Papaioannou believes the
way he described the moments after Booth disappeared shows how deeply he was
affected.
“I then heard cries that the ‘President had been murdered,’ which were
followed by those of ‘Kill the murderer’ ‘Shoot him’ etc which came from
different parts of the audience,” Leale wrote. “I immediately ran
to the Presidents box and as soon as the door was opened was admitted and
introduced to Mrs. Lincoln when she exclaimed several times, ‘O Doctor, do
what you can for him, do what you can!'”
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, administered by the Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, has found and is digitising
90,000 documents, Stowell said. Leale’s report – neither written by or to
Lincoln – doesn’t technically fall in the group’s purview, but Stowell said
some exceptions are made for extraordinary finds.
Source: AP
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