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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]
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 ...
In 1999, the Rare Books and Special Collections Department of the Countway Library assumed custodial responsibility for the Warren Anatomical Museum.Among its holdings is the skull of Phineas Gage, [7] whose life after a traumatic brain injury contributed significantly to medical science.
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The Society's medical collections were donated to the Warren Anatomical Museum around 1870, [26] while its library was absorbed into the Boston Medical Library in 1875. [10] [27] Membership had grown again by 1876, reaching 79 regular members. [25]
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