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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 ...
Allister is an American pop-punk band from Chicago, Illinois.The four-piece formed in 1994 as Phineas Gage when the original band members were still in high school. In 1998, Allister became one of the first bands to sign to Drive-Thru Records.
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]
Phineas Gage got an iron rod shot up through his skull, injuring his brain and his skull and blinding him in his left eye. His surgeon performed medical surgery on him that relieved the pressure in his skull which ultimately saved his life (King Henri II, if he had received a similar procedure, may have survived).
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]
September 13 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3-foot-plus iron rod being driven through his head. September 16 – William Cranch Bond and William Lassell discover Hyperion, Saturn's moon. September 25 – The Hungarian king and Habsburg emperor Ferdinand V refuses to recognise the Hungarian government, led by Lajos Batthyány.
Much of Carter's inspiration for the episode came from reports of Phineas Gage, who underwent a personality change after a blasting accident drove an iron rod completely through his head [3] The aliens' use of a dental drill on Barry was inspired by a neighbour of Carter who said that he was abducted and that the aliens drilled holes into his ...