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Phineas P. Gage
Phineas Gage Cased Daguerreotype WilgusPhoto2008-12-19 EnhancedRetouched Color.jpg
Gage and his "constant companion"‍—‌his inscribed tamping iron‍—‌sometime after 1849, seen in the portrait (identified 2009) which "exploded the common image of Gage as a dirty, disheveled misfit". 
BornJuly 9, 1823 (date uncertain)
Grafton County, New Hampshire
DiedMay 21, 1860 (aged 36)
In or near San Francisco
Cause of deathStatus epilepticus
Burial placeCypress Lawn Memorial Park, California (skull in Warren Anatomical Museum, Boston)
Residence
Occupation
Known forPersonality change after brain injury
Home townLebanon, New Hampshire
Spouse(s)None
ChildrenNone

Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable 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 over the remaining 12 years of his life‍—‌effects sufficiently profound (for a time at least) that friends saw him as "no longer Gage". 


The iron's path, per Harlow