Last month I wrote about Phineas Gage ( link here ) , and I just found that another image of him has turned up. Here is the new family photo, and a transfer collage I did of the one discovered last year. I think he's incredibly, well, .... hot.
Gage was a railroad construction foreman now remembered for his incredible survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head.
Amazingly, Gage spoke within a few minutes, walked with little or no assistance, and sat upright in a cart for the 3/4-mile ride to his lodgings in town. The first physician to arrive was Dr. Edward H. Williams:
I first noticed the wound upon the head before I alighted from my carriage, the pulsations of the brain being very distinct. Mr. Gage, during the time I was examining this wound, was relating the manner in which he was injured to the bystanders. I did not believe Mr. Gage's statement at that time, but thought he was deceived. Mr. Gage persisted in saying that the bar went through his head....Mr. G. got up and vomited; the effort of vomiting pressed out about half a teacupful of the brain, which fell upon the floor.
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