Phineas gage review

Phineas gage was an american railroad construction foreman. He on September 13th 1848 an accidental explosion of a charge he had set blew his tamping iron threw his head. The tamping iron was 3 feet 7 inches long and weighed 13 1/2 pounds. It was 1 1/4 inches in diameter at one end and tapered over a distance of about 1-foot to a diameter of 1/4 inch at the other. The tamping iron went in point first under his left cheek bone and completely out through the top of his head, landing about 25 to 30 yards behind him.
Some months after the accident, probably in the middle 1849, phineas felt strong enough to resume work. but because his personality had change so much, the contractors who had employed him would not give him his place again. Before the accident he had been their most capable and officiant foreman, one with a well-balanced mind, and who was looked on as a shrewd smart business man. His friends said he was no longer gage. His skull is located at warren anatomical museum Harvard medical school.
Phineas gages doctor is Dr. Harlow. He fixed his brain by putting the rest of his brain back inside his head and bandage it back together. Phineas gage was proud of his tamping iron and took it every where and had it for the rest of his life. He road a carriage instead of a car because of his brain. He became famous because back then they did not have any medicine to cure something so big and have a person survive like phineas gage did.