The Special Collections Department of the University of Illinois Chicago Library of the Health Sciences has madeavailable a collection of digital images of neuropathology brain specimenscreated by Dr. Percival Bailey (1892-1973).
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| From UIC's collection, brain specimen featuring pontine glioma. |
Bailey, a pathologist and neurosurgeon, had strongconnections to several Chicago-area academic institutions, including the University of Chicago, Northwestern University,and the University of Illinois. Among hismany career achievements was a collaboration with Harvey Cushing in the 1920sat the Peter Brent Brigham Hospital in Boston that resulted inthe important book, A Classification ofthe Tumors of the Glioma Group.
Bailey created this collection of plastic-embedded brainspecimens in his laboratory at the University of Illinois NeuropsychiatricInstitute, where he was a faculty member from 1939 to 1951.
Many of the specimens included in the digital collection maybe view in an exhibit at the Library of the Health Sciences which will run intothe spring of 2012.
View digital images of over two hundred brain specimens online through CARLI Digital Collections:
For more information about this digital collection or theexhibit, please contact Kevin O’Brien at the UICLibrary of the Health Sciences Special Collections Department:
UIC Library ofthe Health Sciences
1750 W. Polk St.
Chicago, Illinois
312-996-8977
kevinm@uic.edu
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