Phineas Gage or Sometimes I love doing research

While doing research for a comic project, I came across the strange case of one Phineas Gage.

"On 13th September, 1848, 25-year-old Gage and his crew were working on the Rutland and Burlington Railroad near Cavendish in Vermont. Gage was preparing for an explosion by compacting a bore with explosive powder using a tamping iron. While he was doing this, a spark from the tamping iron ignited the powder, causing the iron to be propelled at high speed straight through Gage’s skull. It entered under the left cheek bone and exited through the top of the head, and was later recovered some 30 yards from the site of the accident."

Mr. Gage became an important and controversial figure in the field of neurology and particularly brain trauma. Read more.