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Dr. Harlow notices something wrong with his thinking but still lets him go home.

History of Phineas Gage

Spring of 1849

November 25, 1848

Late 1850s

Phineas has returned to work but his vision is slowly fading. Phineas's personality has changed to. He has become vulgar.

September 28, 1848

Dr. Harlow declares Phineas is fully recovered and he can go home to Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Phineas gets fired from his job in Chile due to his negative character.

An abscess (a swollen area within body tissue, containing pus) develops above Phineas' eye.

May 21, 1960

Early 1851

Phineas dies of seizures at his sister's house, in San Francisco. Seizures most likely caused hypothermia but it's not determined.

Phineas returns to New Hampshire to work for livery stable near Hanover.

1855

1860

1865

1845

1850

1870

January, 1850

December, 1866

Early 1860

Phineas Gage travels to Boston so other doctors can look at his wound.

August, 1852

April 13, 1849

September 13, 1848

Phineas starts to have uncontrollable seizures. The seizures weaken him each time he has one. The seizures gradually occurrs within short periods of time.

Dr. Harlow exhumes Phineas Gage's body along with his tamping iron. He receives permission from Phineas's mother allowing him to exhume the body.

After getting fired, Phineas leaves New England to become a stagecoach driver in Chile to start a new life.

Phineas loses eye sight in his left eye.

26-year-old Phineas Gage gets into a railroad freak accident. A tamping iron passes through his head but Phineas still survives.

1850

Phineas travels but ends up in New York City as performer in Barnum’s American Museum on Broadway in “The Only Living Man With a Hole in His Head,” the freak show.

November 15, 1848

Dr Harlow uses method of bleeding. He thinks that this would even out his body fluids. Dr. Harlow does this when he has a fever.

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