The lead bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln, now in display at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland. The bullet entered below the president’s left ear, bored diagonally through his brain, and stopped behind his right eye. Lincoln never regained consciousness. An autopsy was performed shortly afterwards, not to determine the cause of death but to remove the bullet before burial. Edward Curtis, an assistant surgeon at the autopsy, wrote of the task: “I proceeded to open the head and remove the brain down to the track of the ball. Not finding it readily, we proceeded to remove the entire brain, when, as I was lifting the latter from the cavity of the skull, suddenly the bullet dropped out through my fingers and fell, breaking the solemn silence of the room with its clatter, into an empty basin that was standing beneath. There it lay upon the white china, a little black mass no bigger than the end of my finger—dull, motionless and harmless, yet the cause of such mighty changes in the world’s history as we may perhaps never realize.” #USpresident #president #lincoln #ablincoln #assassination #UShistory #historylesson #dissection #autopsy #museumobject ・・・ #Repost @drlindseyfitzharris with @get_repost (at The Paragon Journal)