Edward Anthony Spitzka (June 17, 1876 – September 4, 1922) was an American

United States

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 anatomist

Anatomy

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 who autopsied (29 Oct 1901) the brain

Brain

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 of Leon Czolgosz

Leon Czolgosz

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, the assassin of president William McKinley

William McKinley

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. (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 until 1914. Dr. Spitzka performed post mortem examinations of the brains of many distinguished American men, including Prof. Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope

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, Prof. Joseph Leidy

Joseph Leidy

Joseph Leidy was an American paleontologist.Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, and later was a professor of natural history at Swarthmore College. His book Extinct Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska contained many species not previously described and many previously...

, Prof. Harrison Allen

Harrison Allen

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, Dr. William Pepper

William Pepper

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, George Francis Train

George Francis Train

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, and Major John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell

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Publications

• Edited Nineteenth American Edition of Gray's Anatomy
  Gray's Anatomy
  Gray's Anatomy is an English-language human anatomy textbook originally written by Henry Gray. The book is widely regarded as an extremely influential work on the subject, and has continued to be revised and republished from its initial publication in 1858 to the present day...
  
  (July 1913).*Edited Eighteenth American Edition of Gray's Anatomy (Oct. 1910).
• Co-edited (with J.C. DaCosta) Seventeenth American Edition of Gray's Anatomy (Sept. 1908).

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