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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 ...
Lone Mountain Cemetery complex in 1869 map of San Francisco. Lone Mountain Cemetery was a complex of cemeteries in the Lone Mountain neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States [2] [3] on the land bounded by the present-day California Street, Geary Boulevard, Parker Avenue, and Presidio Avenue. [4]
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]
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]
Hampton L. Carson (1852–1929), influential legal scholar and historian; Lewis C. Cassidy (1829–1889), Pennsylvania State Attorney General; Five birds are named in honor of the ornithologist John Cassin [3] John Cassin (1813–1869), ornithologist
Three British Commonwealth service personnel of World War I were buried here, but only one, Lieutenant Norman Travers Simpkin (died 1919), Royal Field Artillery, has a marked grave in the cemetery. [17] Two others, Canadian Army soldiers, are alternatively commemorated on a special memorial in Greenlawn Memorial Park in Colma. [18
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But the tamping iron burial is a very commonly known bit of data about Gage, and obviously your bookshelf lacks John Fleishman's book on Phineas Gage where the burial of the rod with Gage, and recovery of them both by Dr. J.D.B Stillman is mentioned on page 59 (Shattuck takes them both east that December, to Harlow).