This is a black and white photograph of a pheasant's brain. The photograph was pasted on a piece of paper that identifies the organ. This is likely the brain of a pheasant which was seriously injured by German bombing during 1940 or 1941. Study of the pheasant’s brain at the No. 1 Neurological Hospital resulted in a paper by Drs. Colin Russel, Oscar William Stewart, and William Cone that was printed in the Lancet and titled “Injury to the central nervous system by blast: Observations on a pheasant.”

image.photograph.black and white 10.3 12.6 cm

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Pheasants.
Microscope slides.
Nerve tissue.

Wilder Penfield Digital Collection

Wilder Penfield Fonds P142 -- Series A (Administration) -- Sub-Series A/N (Administration, Neuro)

Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University

Pheasant Brain, photograph. [Online image]. Wilder Penfield Digital Collection Wilder Penfield Fonds P142 -- Series A (Administration) -- Sub-Series A/N (Administration, Neuro) . Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University . Retrieved April 24, 2024 from http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/penfieldfonds/fullrecord.php?ID=10163

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The paper the photograph is adhered to reads: "Pheasant Brain".

A/N 11-5