Phineas Gage
Phineas P. Gage\xa0(1823\u20131860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable[B1]:19\xa0survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left\xa0frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life\u200d\u2014\u200ceffects sufficiently profound (for a time at least) that friends saw him as "no longer Gage."\u200a[H]:14
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