The Man With a Hole in His Brain
Follow me over to Gross Science with Anna! http://bit.ly/1Qa6gfI ↓ MORE LINKS BELOW ↓ The *mind-blowing* story of Phineas Gage, a man who survived with a hole in his brain – and what...
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Back in 1848 in the North-Eastern United States, there was an ordinary young man who had apretty extraordinary accident.You may have heard of Phineas Gage, the railway foreman who had a one metre iron rod blastedthrough his skull—and survived. It's pretty graphic, think bits of skull and brains burstingout of his head.This is my friend Anna from Gross Science, who's going to take you through the gory details.Part of Gage's work constructing railroads was to sprinkle dynamite into blasting holes.One afternoon, he accidentally stamped the iron rod into a hole filled with dynamite...And it blasted off. Into his head.It tore through his left cheekbone, passed behind his left eye, through his frontal lobe,out the top of his head and landed almost 8 m...
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Back in 1848 in the North-Eastern United States, there was an ordinary young man who had apretty extraordinary accident.You may have heard of Phineas Gage, the railway foreman who had a one metre iron rod blastedthrough his skull—and survived. It's pretty graphic, think bits of skull and brains burstingout of his head.This is my friend Anna from Gross Science, who's going to take you through the gory details.Part of Gage's work constructing railroads was to sprinkle dynamite into blasting holes.One afternoon, he accidentally stamped the iron rod into a hole filled with dynamite...And it blasted off. Into his head.It tore through his left cheekbone, passed behind his left eye, through his frontal lobe,out the top of his head and landed almost 8 m...
