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Title: Phineas Gage
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Published: May 2, 2009
Author: Turtle
Post Date: 2009-05-02 12:37:10 by Turtle
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When I was a kid the only magazine my father had a subscription to was True magazine, which was a men's magazine that went out of business around '74, I think. I only remember two stories from it: one in which some guy shot a charging grizzly two or three times with his .45 and killed it about two feet from him, and the other was about Phineas Gage, Gage I remember vividly. He was the train worker tamping gunpowder in a hole when a blast sent his tamping iron through his skull, giving him a partial lobotomy, He got up a few minutes later and started talking and walking around, even though some of his brains were leaking out of his head. He lived another 11 years, changed to some degree by his injury...an injury that should have instantly killed him,
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#1. To: Turtle (#0)
The Irish have thick skulls.
Actually, he was profoundly changed. He went from being a level headed foreman to being out of control emotionally with no job. He wound up being more resonate with animals then with his fellow humans, which makes him a text book example of what this sort of injury does.
That too. ;-)
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