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Riffz7@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Pretty sure someone hallucinated this or there is another Phineas Gage I can’t find because this one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage had a 3 foot iron tamping rod put through their skull by a powder charge.
Yes and no. The rod was actually a metal straw and the powder charge was actually a car traveling down I-80. Pretty common mistake.
The only reason this is documented so inaccurately is because everyone was too busy looking at the Kim Kardashian pic that broke the Internet and couldn’t open their camera app quickly enough to get it for the vine.
And there seems to be no “anatomy and pathology museum” in UCSF
Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I assumed it was a joke playing off of the actual gage?
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
yeah it read plainly as a reference to me but people also tell me other people don’t know the kinds of things I do a lot of the time.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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Apytele@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
This is funny because I do actually have a strong background in psychiatry which has a fair amount in common with both neurology and psychology and Phineas Gage’s case is actually a pretty famous one in regards to the historical evolution of those fields.