Phineas Gage

Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American rail­road con­struc­tion fore­man now remem­bered for his im­prob­a­ble^[C] sur­vival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven com­plete­ly through his head, destroy­ing much of his brain's left front­al lobe, and for that injury's re­port­ed effects on his per­son­al­ity and behav­ior, effects so profound—at least for a time^[1]—that friends saw him as "no longer Gage".

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• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=45180550