Who is Phineas P. Gage (1823 – 1860)?
Image Source: Phineas Gage GageMillerPhoto2010-02-17 Unretouched Color Cropped. Public Domain. Wikimedia Commons.
Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for surviving an accident in which a large iron rod went completely through his skull. The iron rod destroyed a lot of Gage’s left side frontal lobe. After the injury, Gage lived for 12 years with effects on his personality, his friends described him as, “no longer Gage”.
The image below shows multiple views of the exhumed skull, and tamping iron, of Phineas Gage.
Image Source: J.B.S. Jackson, MD. JacksonJBS A descriptive catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum 1870 frontispiece 623×1024. A Descriptive Catalog of the Warren Anatomical Museum (1870). Wikimedia Commons.
