In 1881, President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau, but he died 80 days later not from the bullet itself, but from a severe infection caused by doctors inserting unsterilized fingers and instruments into his wound while searching for the bullet, demonstrating how 19th-century medical practices could turn survivable injuries fatal.
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The Bullet Didn’t Kill James GarfieldAdded:
The bullet hit President Garfield, but it may not have been what killed him.
On July 2nd, 1881, [music] Garfield entered a Washington train station without a security detail.
Charles Guiteau stepped behind him and fired two shots. One grazed Garfield's arm. The other lodged deep in his back.
The wound was serious, [music] but likely survivable. Then the doctors arrived. They pushed unsterilized fingers and instruments into the wound looking for the bullet. For weeks, Garfield weakened as [music] infection spread through his body. Even Alexander Graham Bell tried to find it with a metal detector. He failed. After 80 days of suffering, [music] Garfield died. Guiteau fired the shots.
Medicine may have finished the [music] job.
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