This Day in History - Remembering Phineas Gage ... September 13, 1848

            On this day, September 13, in 1848,  a 25 year old foreman of a blasting crew preparing a railroad bed outside Cavendish, Vermont earned a place in medical history. The 3 foot 7 inches, 13 1/4 pound iron rod he was using to tamp gunpowder and sand into a hole in the rock caused a spark and the resulting explosion sent the rod flying up and through his left cheek and out the top of his head. The story of his survival and the next eleven + years of his life are still being studied and chronicled.

Our place in the story and the importance of flickr in that story can be read in the links below.

This is a photograph we made of the monument to Gage in Cavendish, Vermont.

Taken on: September 13, 2011

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