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As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 179, [4] compared to 1,367 for the entire town of Cavendish. Cavendish is the site of the 1848 accident where Phineas Gage got an iron rod shot through his skull while preparing a railroad bed. He survived, and after treatment became a case study for brain researchers.
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 ...
He graduated from Vermont Medical College in Woodstock [2] and worked for a time as a physician. 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 ...
Cavendish is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The town was likely named after William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. [3] The population was 1,392 at the 2020 census. [4] The town of Cavendish includes the unincorporated villages of Cavendish and Proctorsville.
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]
People from Ludlow (town), Vermont (21 P) N. ... Vermont" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. ... Phineas Gage; H.
During fall foliage season, hundreds of tourists flock to Pomfret, a small town of 900 locals. Influencers overran a rural Vermont town. Now its locals are fighting back
J .S. Garland, New England town law: a digest of statutes and decisions concerning towns and town officers, Boston Book Co., Boston, 1906. D. G. Sanford, Vermont Municipalities: an index to their charters and special acts, (Vermont Office of Secretary of State, 1986). U.S. Census Bureau, Census of population, data for 1930–2000.