Elsewhere: Previously unknown image of Phineas Gage found

A previously unknown image of Phineas Gage has been found.  Gage, in 1848, was working as a construction foreman when a freak accident sent an iron rod clear through his head.  He survived for 11 years, but had major personality changes.  It’s the stuff of textbooks.

Thomas H. Maugh II writes for the LA Times:

The daguerreotype has been in the possession of Jack and Beverly Wilgus for 30 years, although they do not know its origin. They thought it was an image of a whaler holding his harpoon, but whaling experts viewing it online told them it was not. Then an anonymous tipster suggested it was Gage.