Endocranial Cast of John Howison

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This is a cast of the brain of John Howison, who's cadaver was the last to be given over for dissection after execution before the Anatomy Act of 1832. Howison was accused of entering a woman's home and murdering her with a garden spade. He pleaded a case of insanity but this was overruled; today we think that Howison was probably suffering from severe paranoid schizophrenia but in 1832 it hadn't yet been recognised as an illness.  On the night of his execution in 1832, Howison admitted to eight murders in total; but, upon investigation, apart from the case of the elderly lady, no other murders had in fact taken place.

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AnatomicalMuseum
The collection consists of 12,000 objects and specimens that tell the story of 300 years of anatomical teaching at the University of Edinburgh. About one third of the museum’s collection is related to pathology, anatomy and zoology. This includes models, skeletal remains, dried and fluid preserved specimens. The rest of the collections include phrenology, pharmacology, ethnography, forensics and anatomical and other artworks. The museum displays a number of unique objects including the skull of George Buchanan (tutor to James VI), a dissected body with the lymphatic system injected with mercury (1788) and the skeleton of notorious murderer William Burke (1829). In 2016 the Anatomical Museum was awarded ‘Accredited’ status by Museums Galleries Scotland.

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