Hi DrContango, "two-thirds of introductory psychology textbooks mention" his story. Knew my Psychology 100, one elective taken, was lacking in some respects. It was too easy. And the prof. was so bad an hour alone with the textbook was more fruitful. Am pretty sure it didn't include the explosive story. Don't think i would have forgotten it either. Though there was a nasty shock to the head later on the Banff-Jasper .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=168020978 , after which Dad said my memory wasn't as good. I disagreed, felt it had always been iffy. Would never know. It's not easy to accept that many of our inquiring minds could have missed the most unfortunate tale of Phineas Gage. Repeat some of yours:
Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient
An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history’s most famous brain-injury survivor
Steve Twomey January 2010
"Here is business enough for you," Gage told the first doctor to treat him after a premature detonation on a railroad-building site turned a tamping iron into a missile. From the collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus (Image laterally reversed to show the features in the correct position since daguerreotype is a mirror image [...] In December 2007, Beverly posted a scan of the image on Flickr, the photo-sharing Web site, [...] Gage’s friends found him“no longer Gage,” Harlow wrote. The balance between his “intellectual faculties and animal propensities” seemed gone. He could not stick to plans, uttered “the grossest profanity” and showed “little deference for his fellows.” The railroad-construction company that employed him, which had thought him a model foreman, refused to take him back. So Gage went to work at a stable in New Hampshire, drove coaches in Chile and eventually joined relatives in San Francisco, where he died in May 1860, at age 36, after a series of seizures. [...] In time, Gage became the most famous patient in the annals of neuroscience, because his case was the first to suggest a link between brain trauma and personality change. [...] Michael Spurlock, a database administrator in Missoula, Montana, happened upon the Wilgus daguerreotype on Flickr in December 2008. As soon as he saw the object the one-eyed man held, Spurlock knew it was not a harpoon. Too short. No wooden shaft. It looked more like a tamping iron, he thought. Instantly, a name popped into his head: Phineas Gage. Spurlock knew the Gage story well enough to know that any photograph of him would be the first to come to light. He knew enough, too, to be intrigued by Gage’s appearance, if it was Gage. Over the years, accounts of his changed character had gone far beyond Harlow’s observations, Macmillan says, turning him into an ill-tempered, shiftless drunk. But the man in the Flickr photogragh seemed well-dressed and confident.
It was Spurlock who told the Wilguses that the man in their daguerreotype might be Gage.
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