Facts: - death place: woburn , massachusetts - alt: john martyn harlow - signature: john m. harlow -lrb- signature -rrb- . jpg - known for: attendance on brain-injury survivor phineas gage - signature alt: signature of john m. harlow - death date: 13 may 1907 - education: philadelphia school of anatomy , jefferson medical college - birth date: 25 november 1819 - name: john martyn harlow - image: john-m-harlow . jpg - birth place: whitehall , new york - occupation: physician , bank director Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john martyn harlow .
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john martyn harlow -lrb- november 25 , 1819 -- may 13 , 1907 -rrb- was an american physician primarily remembered for his attendance on brain-injury survivor phineas gage , and for his published reports on gage 's accident and subsequent history .harlow was born in whitehall , new york on november 25 , 1819 .he studied at philadelphia school of anatomy and graduated from jefferson medical college , philadelphia in 1844 .his practice in cavendish , vermont , near which gage 's accident occurred in 1848 , brought gage under his care .in 1857 he left cavendish due to poor health , and spent three years traveling and studying in minnesota and philadelphia before setting up a practice in woburn , massachusetts and joining the massachusetts medical society on december 17 , 1861 .his first paper regarding gage appeared in '' boston medical and surgical journal '' in late 1848 ; a short follow-up note appeared early the next year .almost twenty years later , in 1868 , he published a final paper recounting what he had been able to learn about the subsequent history of his patient -lrb- who died in 1860 -rrb- , and presenting psychological changes in gage which , presumably , were sequelae of the accident .in one of the most memorably strange examples ever of dogged long-term medical followup , harlow , having '' tracgage in his wanderings over the greater part of this continent '' -lrb- by which he meant south as well as north america , gage having spent seven years in chile before continuing to california -rrb- had even obtained gage 's skull for use in preparing the paper .in his later years he was a bank and railroad director .he was highly active in civic affairs such as city health commissions , was a local medical official during the civil war , and was elected to the massachusetts legislature .he left most of his substantial wealth to charity , for example endowing a ward for the poor at massachusetts general hospital and a book fund at woburn memorial high school 's library , which is named for him .