Entry on Phineas Gage skull and tamping iron in A Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum

Entry on Phineas Gage skull and tamping iron in A Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum

Gage, Phineas

Warren Anatomical Museum

skull

casts

The museum entries for Phineas Gage's skull and iron bar can be found in the 1870 publication of The Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum. Gage's skull is listed as museum number 949 in the "Morbid Anatomy" in the "Second Division." Series XX lists bones in the museums collection. Dr. John Harlow began a correspondence with Gage's mother in order to receive updates about his health. Warren Museum curator, J. B. S. Jackson, D. D. Shattuck, Esq. (Gage's brother-in-law), Dr. Coon (Mayor of San Francisco), and Dr. J. D. B. Stillman were recognized for their retrieval of Gage's skull (no. 949) and the iron bar (no. 3106) from the accident. Museum entry 950 lists the cast that Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow took of Gage's head in 1850.

The 1870 publication of the Warren Anatomical Museum's Descriptive Catalogue which lists Gage's skull, a skull casts, and the iron bar from the accident.

Jackson, J. B. S. (John Barnard Swett), 1806-1879

John Ford

1870

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J. B. S. Jackson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum (Boston: A. Williams, 1870), 145-149, 683.

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1 Descriptive Catalogue (7 pages)

English

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