Skull of Phineas Gage (1823-1860)

Skull of Phineas Gage (1823-1860)

Prepared human skull of Phineas Gage

Brain Injuries, Traumatic

skull

Head Injuries, Penetrating

Neuronal Plasticity

human remains

Prepared human skull on an adult man with sectioned skull top and disarticulated mandible. Skull has healed fracture line through left orbit ending in large opening with partially healed skull flap.

Injured and partially healed skull of Phineas Gage

None

Harlow, J. M. (John Martyn), 1819-1907

1867-1868

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Osteological Preparation: Human

object

1

bone (material)

physical object

Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number: 00949

Skull was exhumed from Phineas Gage's grave in San Francisco in 1867, with permission from his mother, Hannah Trussell Swetland Gage. Swetland Gage gave the skull to Phineas Gage's former physician, John Martyn Harlow. Harlow donated the skull, with the tamping iron the caused the injury to the skull, to the Warren Anatomical Museum in 1868.