Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster: brain with a defective cerebellum, seen from different angles. Three photographs, 1884.

  • Shuttleworth, G. E. (George Edward), 1842-1928.
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1884
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39152i
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Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster: brain with a defective cerebellum, seen from different angles. Three photographs, 1884. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1884

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3 photographs : photoprints, albumen ; mount 19.5 x 14.5 cm

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Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster, 1884. G.E.S. Reduced slightly by shrinkage. Defective cerebellum. Sarah Wade at 151/2 Lettering hand-written in pencil on mount

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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

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