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Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman, Janet Allen, Johnny Heller, Kevin Orton, Rb Education (Firm), Inc Recorded Books Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-618-49478-2 / 0618494782 ISBN-13: 978-0-618-49478-1 / 9780618494781 Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. Phineas, a railroad construction foreman, was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived to live another eleven years and become a textbook case in brain sci |