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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 ...
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Phineas Gage (1823–1860), railroad construction foreman whose survival of an accident influenced discussion about the brain George Hawkins , victim of a bad skin graft that led to the celebrated "Hairy Hand" case of Hawkins v.
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, who sustained a severe frontal lobe injury in 1848, has been called a case of dysexecutive syndrome. Gage's psychological changes are almost always exaggerated – of the symptoms listed, the only ones Gage can be said to have exhibited are "anger and frustration", slight memory impairment, and "difficulty in planning". [21]
Kelly Gage (1925-2017), American lawyer and politician; Lyman Gage (1836–1927), financier and US Secretary of the Treasury; Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898), women's suffrage activist; Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage (born 1934) Richard Gage (architect), leader of the group Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
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]
May 10 – Theodore Parker, preacher, Transcendentalist and abolitionist (born 1810) 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)