The base of the human brain mb-height 1526 Montague House

Montague House

The Coldstream guards seen here mounting the guard at Buckingham Palace with the new Belgian FN automatic rifle being watched by 6 year old John Tidy of Surrey

pictured 29th April 1979

Queen Visits Manchester

The base of the human brain mb-height 1526 Montague HouseIllustration showing the base of the brain. The text states that this is the brain of a young man. It illustrates the inner features of the brain, the network of nerves and the beginning of the spinal cord. Plate 4 from the monograph Cerebri Anatome by Thomas Willis FRS (London, Jo. Martyn & Ja. Allestry, 1664). Inscribed: 'Fig. IIII, pag. 51'. Original: engraving. 1664