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Well preserved by the alcohol,* Jones's body was autopsied by Paris Pathologist André Victor Cornil, who snipped bits of tissue from the heart, lungs, spleen and kidneys. The lungs showed evidence of pneumonia and possibly TB, from which Jones was known to have suffered. The kidney tissue showed the effects of nephritis, from which the great captain had died. Pathologist Cornil had the kidney slides photographed; the pictures were sent to the U.S. Congress along with Ambassador Porter's report...
...remains were brought home in state (they now rest in the crypt of the Naval Academy Chapel at Annapolis), military medics later began to wonder what had happened to the missing kidney sections. Dr. William Feldman of the Mayo Clinic last September launched the search in Paris, interrogated Cornil's grandson and laboratory aides, finally dug up some old unidentified kidney slides, and had them forwarded to the Institute of Pathology. But when matched against Cornil's 51-year-old photos last week, the slides did not prove to be the ones; the search is still...
Weakly retorted Public Prosecutor Cornil...
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