History: How this man and a wayward crowbar changed the face of neuroscience forever
The curious case of Phineas Gage, who took an iron rod to the brain and lived to tell the tale
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This bizarre story from the annals of medical history has ‘occupational health and safety lawsuit’ written all over it.
A foreman for the American railroad in 1848, Phineas Gage’s bad workday would see him become a worldwide clinical curiosity and one of neuroscience’s most famous patients.