Phineas Gage 1823 – 1860

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Phineas Gage Life Mask and Skull

Photo taken by Graham Gordon Ramsay from the 

Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Warren Anatomical Museum

Wikipedia entry for Phineas Gage

Phineas was railroad construction foreman now remembered for his incredible survival of an accident which drove a large iron rod through his head, destroying one or both of his fontal lobes…

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