Phineas Gage Book Summary. On september 13th, 1848, when gage was 25 years old, he was working in cavendish in vermont, leading a crew which were preparing the rutland and burlington railroad by blasting rocks to make a roadbed. Phineas gage was an american railroad construction foreman born in 1823.
Phineas gage suffered a horrendous accident in 1848 when a tamping iron exploded through his skull. This is phineas gage, a man who worked as a foreman in. Phineas gage was truly a man with a hole in his head.
One day a tamping iron passed through his skull, totally destroying the left anterior lobe of his brain.
Peoples began detecting that mr. He was packing down sand over explosive powder, to blast some rock that was in the way. Explain how and why the open nature of the wound was both lucky and unlucky. He got distracted by something,