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Phineas Gage and the iron rod
1848
Cavendish, Vermont
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
A railroad foreman blasting rock outside Cavendish in 1848 had a thirteen-pound iron rod blown clean through his skull, stood up, and spoke within minutes. Phineas Gage lived twelve more years as neuroscience's first and most famous case study: the change in his personality taught medicine that the front of the brain is where the self lives. The town marks the spot. The rod and his skull are at Harvard.
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