Phineas gage

Phineas Gage. If you don't know his story, look like sorry/lucky bastard up!

He never lost consciousness.

Jack and Beverly Wilgus have had this daguerreotype for 30 years. They assumed it was a whaler holding the harpoon that blinded him. But someone who saw the image recently…

Self-Portrait as Phineas Gage #illustration #art

Phineas Gage may have the most famous brain ever. He’s so famous there’s even a statue dedicated to him in Cavendish, Vermont, the area where his infamy began.

Phineas Gage and his metal rod.

Illustration of Phineas Gage's head and brain wounds. An iron rod is lodged from his frontal lobe, passes behind his left eye, and out through the left cheek.

An accident on railroad with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history’s most famous brain injury survivor

The story of Phineas Gage illustrates some of the first medical knowledge gained on the relationship between personality and the functioning of the brain's frontal lobe. A well-liked and successful construction foreman, Phineas Gage was contracted to work on the bed preparation for the Rutland & Burlington Railroad in Cavendish, Vermont in late 1840’s. On the 13th of September 1848, while preparing the railroad bed, an accidental explosion of a charge he had set blew a 13-pound tamping iron…

Phineas Gage (The american crowbar case, 1823-1860)

The skull, life cast, and tamping iron of Phineas Gage Phineas Gage (1823-1860) is one of neurology’s most famous cases. Gage sustained a traumatic brain injury in 1848 when a 3’ 7” inch iron rod fired through his head. The accident cost Gage an eye and altered his personality, but he survived. Gage’s physician, John Harlow (1819-1907), donated the skull and tamping iron to the Warren Anatomical Museum in 1868.

Phineas Gage

"Phineas Gage" history

The skull of Phineas Gage, at Warren Anatomical Museum at Harvard University.

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A Rail Road labourer, Phineas Gage (1823–1860) surviv­ed an accident in 1848 in which a long iron rod was blasted by explosive through his bonce, destroy­ing his brain’s left frontal lobe. He thus became inadvertently the first recipient of the sort of lobotomies and leucotomies so widely beloved of 1950's psychiatrists. The injury transformed and brutalised his personal­i­ty so profoundly that former friends saw him as “no longer Gage.” It had made a mild-mannered man into a thug.

For school , but rushed a bit

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