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  2. Phineas Gage - Wikipedia

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    Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable: 19 survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life‍—‌effects sufficiently ...

  3. John Martyn Harlow - Wikipedia

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    John Martyn Harlow (1819–1907) was an American physician primarily remembered for his attendance on brain-injury survivor Phineas Gage, and for his published reports on Gage's accident and subsequent history. Boston Herald, May 20, 1907. Harlow was born in Whitehall, New York on November 25, 1819 to Ransom and Annis Martyn Harlow. [1]

  4. Edward H. Williams - Wikipedia

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    While working on the Rutland & Burlington railroad in Cavendish, Vermont, with his former physics teacher Hosea Doton, [3] he was the first physician to treat railroad contractor Phineas Gage after Gage survived accidentally blasting a tamping iron through his jaw and skull while setting an explosive charge. [4]

  5. 1860 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    May 21 – Phineas Gage, improbable head injury survivor (born 1823) May 31 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1841 to 1860 (born 1784) June 6 – Henry P. Haun, U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (born 1815) July 1 – Charles Goodyear, inventor (born 1800)

  6. Cavendish, Vermont - Wikipedia

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    Phineas Gage, working near Cavendish in 1848, survived an accident in which a large iron rod was driven through his head; John Martyn Harlow, physician; who attended Phineas Gage during his recovery; Redfield Proctor, United States senator, Secretary of War, and 37th governor of Vermont; William H. Proctor, Wisconsin State Assemblyman and ...

  7. Anatoli Bugorski - Wikipedia

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    Phineas Gage — survived piercing through of the skull by an iron rod in 1848; List of civilian radiation accidents; References External links. Joel Frohlich (12 ...

  8. Acquired brain injury - Wikipedia

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    Phineas Gage's case of traumatic brain injury that greatly stimulated discussion on brain function and physiology Henry Molaison , formerly known as patient H.M., underwent neurosurgery to remove scar tissue in his brain that was causing debilitating epileptic seizures , neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed the surgery which created ...

  9. Henry Jacob Bigelow - Wikipedia

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    Bigelow c. 1854. Henry Jacob Bigelow (March 11, 1818 – October 30, 1890) was an American surgeon and Professor of Surgery at Harvard University.A dominating figure in Boston medicine for many decades, he is remembered for the Bigelow maneuver for hip dislocation, a technique for treatment of kidney stones, and other innovations.