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A wet specimen of cranial nerves, preserved in spirits, maintained and donated by Dr. Charles Bell (1774-1842).

This is an image of the brain of Charles J Guiteau who shot president Garfield in 1881. With this specimen, you can see a real life "guilty mind." Guiteau was hung in 1882 where his brain was saved. Experts of the time said that the lob-sidedness or…