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  2. Phineas Gage - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. John Martyn Harlow - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Henry Jacob Bigelow - Wikipedia

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    Bigelow c. 1854. Henry Jacob Bigelow (March 11, 1818 – October 30, 1890) was an American surgeon and Professor of Surgery at Harvard University.A dominating figure in Boston medicine for many decades, he is remembered for the Bigelow maneuver for hip dislocation, a technique for treatment of kidney stones, and other innovations.

  5. Edward H. Williams - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Frontal lobe injury - Wikipedia

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    A widely reported case of frontal lobe injury was that of Phineas Gage, a railroad worker whose left frontal lobe was damaged by a large iron rod in 1848 (though Gage's subsequent personality changes are almost always grossly exaggerated).

  7. Warren Anatomical Museum - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Phineas - Wikipedia

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    Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650), Scottish-English poet; Phineas Gage (1823–1860), American railroad construction foreman whose personality was changed by a brain injury; Phineas Hitchcock (1831–1881), American politician; Phineas Hodson (died 1646), Anglican clergyman and Chancellor of York from 1611 to 1646; Phineas Jones (1819–1884 ...

  9. Duane Barry - Wikipedia

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    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 ...