16 Facts About Phineas Gage

Historically, published accounts of Phineas Gage have almost always severely exaggerated and distorted his behavioral changes, frequently contradicting the known facts.

Mr Phineas Gage persisted in saying that the bar went through his head.

Phineas Gage recognized me at once, and said he hoped he was not much hurt.

Phineas Gage seemed to be perfectly conscious, but was getting exhausted from the hemorrhage.

Phineas Gage was swallowing blood, which he regurgitated every 15 or 20 minutes.

Harlow's prognosis at this point: Phineas Gage "appears to be in a way of recovering, if he can be controlled".

Phineas Gage's rearmost left upper molar, adjacent to the point of entry through the cheek, was lost.

Phineas Gage lost his job, and as the seizures increased in frequency and severity he "continued to work in various places [though he] could not do much".

Phineas Gage was buried in San Francisco's Lone Mountain Cemetery.

In 1866, Harlow somehow learned that Phineas Gage had died in California, and made contact with his family there.

The date Jan 6 1850 falls within the period during which Phineas Gage was in Boston under Bigelow's observation.

In 1940 Phineas Gage's headless remains were moved to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park as part of a mandated relocation of San Francisco's cemeteries to outside city limits.

Only a handful of sources give direct information on what Phineas Gage was like, the mental changes published after his death were much more dramatic than anything reported while he was alive, and few sources are explicit about the periods of Phineas Gage's life to which their various descriptions of him are meant to apply.

Nonetheless these same employers, after Phineas Gage's accident, "considered the change in his mind so marked that they could not give him his place again":.

The Phineas Gage who appears in contemporary psychology textbooks is simply a compound creature.

For example, after Eugene Dupuy wrote that Phineas Gage proved that the brain is not localized Ferrier replied by using Phineas Gage to support his thesis that the brain is localized.