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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 ...
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 ...
The Putney Village Historic District encompasses most of the main village and town center of Putney, Vermont.Settled in the 1760s, the village saw its major growth in the late 18th and early 19th century, and includes a cohesive collection with Federal and Greek Revival buildings, with a more modest number of important later additions, including the Italianate town hall.
Closed in 1972 after it merged with the Brightlook Hospital to form the Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital. 1896: 1973: Proctor Hospital [5] Proctor: Rutland: First hospital opened in 1896 and was used until 1904. The second hospital building was built in 1904 and was used until it closed in 1973 and was later demolished. 1896 [6] 1968 ...
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]
A postcard for the hospital when it was known as the Mary Fletcher Hospital. The modern medical center, formerly known as Fletcher Allen Health Care, was formed in 1995 from the merger of three organizations: Medical Center Hospital of Vermont; Founded in Burlington in 1879, [7] Mary Fletcher Hospital was the first hospital in Vermont.
The town of Norwich was chartered in 1761 and settled the following decade. Its original town center was located north of the present village, which rose in significance due to its location nearer fertile lands adjacent to the Connecticut River, and the 1820 establishment of the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, now Norwich University.
Phineas Gage Skull of Phineas Gage. The Warren Anatomical Museum, housed within Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine, was founded in 1847 by Harvard professor John Collins Warren, [1] whose personal collection of 160 [2] unusual and instructive anatomical and pathological specimens now forms the nucleus of the museum's 15,000-item collection. [3]