File:Mendocino autopsy.jpg

English: Photo from an autopsy log from Mendocino State Hospital. From the website: "This was the only photograph in a 400 page autopsy log for Mendocino State Hospital, (formerly the Mendocino State Asylum) located near Ukiah, California. Taken in 1899, the photograph is from an entry on a patient who had died at the age of 93 from dementia senilis: "Growing from the inner table, just anterior to the coronal suture and 2 cm. from the median line on the right, was the tumour the size of a large English walnut, projecting downward into and backward, or perpendicular to the point of attachment to the skull. The surface was light pinkish in color, and irregularly modulated." In the course of the hundred years this photo has sat in its logbook, the text from the opposite page has ghosted itself across the print. If you're having difficulty figuring out what the image is (it took me a good while to figure it out myself when I first ran across it), it is the inside of a patient's skull held on both sides by a surgeon."