Phineas Gage the man who had a spike go into his head and live

== Background ==
Gage was Born in 1823 in New Hampshire to Jesse and Hannah Gage, he later met John Harlow who described him after the accident as " A perfectly Healthy, strong and active young man."
== accident ==
On September 13, 1843 he was working on a railroad track in Vermont for the Rutland & Burlington company, his job was to tamp dynamite into the ground and he accidentally started up a spark and a small explosion started launching the pole into his left eye which went through his head and landed a few feet away which he survived, he then went to the doctor where he vomited "a teacupful of the brain"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGeJHksykI he also swallowed and vomited blood every 15 to 20 mins, he late devolved ptosis in his eye along with loss of vision in his left eye and he also had a scar on his forehead, he also had a very big personality change becoming a angry, and foul-mouthed. 
== aftermath ==
He was later invited to the Boston Society for Medical Improvement in November of 1849 by professor Henry Jacob Bigelow and was also invited to Barnum's American Museum by P.T. Barnum, he also later traveled to Chile to be a stagecoach driver in 1852 and later became a famer for Santa Clara in the late 1850s,
=== death ===
he later died of a seizure in May of 1860 at 5 o' clock, his head was later exhumed and put in the Warren Anatomical Museum.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage