Edward Anthony Spitzka (June 17, 1876 – September 4, 1922) was an American
anatomist who autopsied (29 Oct 1901) the
brain of
Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of president
William McKinley.[1] (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.)
Co-edited (with J.C. DaCosta) Seventeenth American Edition of
Gray's Anatomy (Sept. 1908).[6]
Edited Eighteenth American Edition of Gray's Anatomy (Oct. 1910).[6]
Edited Nineteenth American Edition of Gray's Anatomy (July 1913).[6]
Spitzka, Edward A. “The Mesial Relations of the Inflected Fissure: Observations upon One Hundred Brains,” New York Medical Journal (1901): 6-10.
Spitzka, Edward A. “A Contribution to the Fissural Integrality of the Paroccipital: Observations upon One Hundred Brains,” The Journal of Mental Pathology (1901): 25-33.
Spitzka, Edward A. “Preliminary report with Projection Drawings Illustrating the Topography of the Paracœles in their Relation to the Surface of the Cerebrum and Cranium,” New York Medical Journal (1901): 177-182.
Spitzka, Edward A. “The Redundancy of the Preinsula in the Brains of Distinguished Educated Men,” The Medical Record (1901): 940-943.
Spitzka, Edward A. “A Preliminary Communication of a Study of the Brains of Two Distinguished Physicians, Father and Son [Edouard Seguin and Edouard C. Seguin],” The Philadelphia Medical Journal (1901): 680-688.
Spitzka, Edward A. “Is the Central Fissure Duplicated in the Brain of Carlo Giacomini, Anatomist? A Note on a Fissural Anomaly,” The Philadelphia Medical Journal (1901): 319-323.
Spitzka, Edward A. “The Czolgosz Case,” The Philadelphia Medical Journal (1901): 693-695.
Spitzka, Edward A. “Contributions to the Encephalic Anatomy of the Races,” American Journal of Anatomy (1901-1902): 516.
Spitzka, Edward A. “The Post-Mortem Examination of Leon F. Czolgosz, the Assassin of President McKinley,” American Journal of Insanity (1901-1902): 386-404.
Spitzka, Edward A. “Remarks on the Czolgosz Case and Allied Questions as Presented by [E.S.] Talbot,” The Medical Critic (1902): 17-28.
Spitzka, Edward A. “Brain-weights of Animals with Special Reference to the Weights of the Brain of the Macaque Monkey,” The Journal of Comparative Neurology (1903): 9-17.
Spitzka, Edward A. “The Postorbital Limbus: A Formation Occasionally met with at the Base of the Human Brain,” The Philadelphia Medical Journal (1903): 646-648.
Spitzka, Edward A. “A Study of the Brain-weights of Men Notable in the Professions, Arts and Sciences,” The Philadelphia Medical Journal (1903): 757-761.
Spitzka, Edward A. “Autopsy on Electrocuted Criminal, Toni Turckofski, a Polish Murderer, Executed at Sing Sing Prison, Aug., 1903,” The Medical Critic (1903): 1200-1203.
Spitzka, Edward A. “The Brain of a Swedish Statesman,” Science (1904): 612.
Spitzka, Edward A. “The Brain of the Histologist and Physiologist, Otto C. Lovén,” Science (1904): 994.
Spitzka, Edward A. “Preliminary Note on the Brains of Natives of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1908): 51-58.
Spitzka, Edward A. “Infliction of Death Penalty by Electricity,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1908): 39-50.
Spitzka, Edward A. “The Resuscitation of Persons Shocked by Electricity,” The Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey (1908-1909): 549-555.
Spitzka, Edward A., and H.E. Radasch. “Brain Lesions Produced by Electricity as Observed after Legal Electrocution,” The American Journal of the Medical Sciences (1912): 341-347.
Spitzka, Edward A. “Depletion of Nerve Force in Neurasthenic States and Eye-strain, Reflex Headaches and Ocular Vertigo,” The Optical Journal and Review of Optometry (1916): 909-913.