Paper, 'An observation of an infant, where the braine was depressed into the hollow of the vertebrae of the neck' by Dr Edward Tyson Tyson describes an infant who died just after birth, having been born with a skull depressed above the eyebrows down into the spine. The autopsy revealed that the brain had also been pressed down into the neck. Subject: Anatomy Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An observation of an infant, where the brain was depressed into the hollow of the vertebræ of the neck'. Read to the Royal Society on 12 May 1697. [1697]