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Excerpt from Political Assassinations in Some of Their Relations to Psychiatry and Legal Medicine
Charles Jules Guiteau, who assassinated Presi dent Garfield in 1881, was insane, an opinion which I expressed before his trial and which I have con tinued to hold. It is justified by a study of his life history, by his conduct after the assassination, and by the results of the autopsy and microscopical ex amination of his brain. I have not here the space to review in any detail the case of Guiteau, which abounds in interest both from the standpoint of psychiatry and of medical jurisprudence. Krafft Ebing ranks Guiteau among his illustrations of para noia politica. He certainly belonged to the type of insanity which is now generally designated as para noia. My own view is that which was also held by Folsom, that he was a paranoiac, probably 1n the first stages of general paresis, a not unrecorded com bination.
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