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The introduction to Phineas P. Gage  Portraits The second portrait of Gage to be identified (2010) Background Phineas P. Gage (1823 – May 21, 1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brains left frontal lobe, and for that injurys reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining twelve years of his life—​effects so profound that friends saw him as no longer Gage. Background Gage was the first of five children born to Jess