December 15, 2008
The art of the dying brain:
Neurophilosophy has found a wonderful collection of historic neuropathology drawings from the 1800s that manage to be both gruesome and beautiful in equal measure.
The collection is from an 1831 addition to the book Reports on Medical Cases, Selected with a View to Illustrate the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy.
The medical text was authored by Richard Bright who employed various distinguished painters to create the illustrations, including a royal portrait artist.
Neurophilosophy has selected some of the finest and most striking drawings of the nervous system that make for some compelling viewing.
Link to Neurophilosophy on 'Beautiful diseased brains'.
