Endocranial Cast of John Howison

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.