Railroad Accident

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Someone asked me a question about a man who was working on the railroad and got his frontal lobes separated by a rod when there was an explosion. Did this ever happen and if so what was the man's name?

-- Mena Sai (shelbs_7@hotmail.com), November 27, 2001

Answers

This sounds like the case of Phineas Gage; go to

http://www.hbs.deakin.edu.au/gagepage/PGAGE.HTM

for details.

-- Raymond Fancher (fancher@yorku.ca), November 27, 2001.


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