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Strange Magic of the Enchanted Goblet
In 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital, the first public demonstration of a surgical operation employing ether anesthesia changed medicine, surgery,...
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Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar Through the Head
This is the 1869 reprint of Dr. Harlow's 1868 speech, Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar Through the Head, given at the Massachusetts Medical…
Dr. Harlow's Case of Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar through the Head
Henry Bigelow, a doctor, brought Phineas Gage to Boston to study from his accident. The article provides a summary of the Phineas Gage case with the…
Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar
The first published article about Phineas Gage, originally given as a speech, by Dr. John M. Harlow. A detailed account of Gage's recovery following…