Brain with defect in the right frontal region. Pencil drawing.

1 drawing : pencil ; image 13 x 17.4 cm

Brain showing defect of right frontal region "porencephaly" Lettering hand-written in ink below image, both of which are pasted onto the inside cover of a small, hard-backed booklet

Part of a collection of photographs formed by George Edward Shuttleworth (1842-1928). He was Superintendent of the Royal Albert Asylum at Lancaster from 1870 to 1893. On his retirement in 1893, he devoted himself to the study of insanity, and published a book entitled "Mentally-deficient children: their treatment and training", London 1895. Some of his photographs, manuscripts and publications were presented to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1929

Wellcome Collection 39149i