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John Martyn Harlow: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from John Martyn Harlow, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• A rod shot clean through his skull, and everyone who knew him said he 'was no longer Gage'

  In 1848, a blasting accident drove a metre-long iron rod through Phineas Gage's frontal lobe. He survived, still walking and talking within minutes, but friends said the once mild-…

  — John Martyn Harlow, Passage of an Iron Rod through the Head

• An iron rod shot through his skull and rewrote neuroscience

  In 1848, railroad foreman Phineas Gage survived an explosion that drove a 13-pound iron rod through his frontal lobe and out the top of his skull. He was conscious minutes later an…

  — John Martyn Harlow, Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar through the Head

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