The Special Collections Department of the University of Illinois
Chicago Library of the Health Sciences has made
available a collection of digital images of neuropathology brain specimens
created 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 strong
connections to several Chicago-area academic institutions, including the University of Chicago, Northwestern University,
and the University
of Illinois. Among his
many career achievements was a collaboration with Harvey Cushing in the 1920s
at the Peter Brent Brigham
Hospital in Boston that resulted in
the important book, A Classification of
the Tumors of the Glioma Group.
Bailey created this collection of plastic-embedded brain
specimens in his laboratory at the University
of Illinois Neuropsychiatric
Institute, where he was a faculty member from 1939 to 1951.
Many of the specimens included in the digital collection may
be view in an exhibit at the Library of the Health Sciences which will run into
the 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 the
exhibit, please contact Kevin O’Brien at the UIC
Library of the Health Sciences Special Collections Department:
UIC Library of
the Health Sciences
1750 W. Polk St.
Chicago,
Illinois
312-996-8977
kevinm@uic.edu
