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Phineas Gage is a railroad worker who was impaled through the skull by a pipe. Despite losing an eye, he went on to drive carriages in Chile and died 11 years after the injury.
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Jake Jacobs (The Giant Book Of Strange Facts (The Big Book Of Facts 15))
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Temperament itself is so tempestuous. One year after Jane Eyre was published, a medical oddity revealed one of the first examples of the brain’s effect on personality. On September 13, 1848, Phineas Gage was blasting rock while constructing a railroad in Vermont.
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Jaime Lowe (Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind)