Once you know what it is, this apparently innocuous
picture of a blob assumes a terrible gravity. It is an adult human brain
that is entirely smooth – free of the ridges and folds so
characteristic of our species' most complex organ. We can only imagine what life was like for this person. He or she was a resident of what is now North Texas State Hospital, a mental health facility, and died
there in 1970, but that's all we know. While the jar containing the
brain is labelled with a reference number, the microfilm containing the
patient's medical records has been lost. From NS.