Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Phineas Gage across 3 places, from 1849 to 1852.
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Phineas P. Gage (18231860) 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 brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personalityWikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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November 1849month
Harvard Medical Schoolattested“In November 1849 Henry Jacob Bigelow, the Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, brought Gage to Boston for several weeks and, after satisfying himself that the tamping iron had actually passed through Gage's head, presented him…”source: Wikipedia: Phineas Gage
November 1849month
Bostonattested“In November 1849 Henry Jacob Bigelow, the Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, brought Gage to Boston for several weeks and, after satisfying himself that the tamping iron had actually passed through Gage's head, presented him…”source: Wikipedia: Phineas Gage
1850 to 1869period
Bostonattested“According to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (1869) it was the 1850 report on Gage by BigelowHarvard's Professor of Surgery and "a majestic and figure on the medical scene of those times"that "finally succeeded in forcing [the ca…”source: Wikipedia: Phineas Gage
August 1852month
Chileattested“In August 1852, Gage was invited to Chile to work as a long-distance stagecoach driver there, "caring for horses, and often driving a coach heavily laden and drawn by six horses" on the ValparaísoSantiago route.”source: Wikipedia: Phineas Gage
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1848year
Harlowmentioned“Pointing out that Bigelow gave extensive verbatim quotations from Harlow's 1848 papers, yet failed to mention Harlow's promise to follow up with details of Gage's "mental manifestations", Barker explains Bigelow's and Harlow's contradict…”source: Wikipedia: Phineas Gage
April 1849month
Harlowmentioned“In April 1849, Gage returned to Cavendish and visited Harlow, who noted at that time loss of vision, and ptosis, of the left eye, a large scar on the forehead (from Harlow's draining of the abscess) and Gage's rearmost left upper molar,…”source: Wikipedia: Phineas Gage
1859year
New Hampshirementioned“After his health began to fail in mid-1859, he left Chile for San Francisco, arriving (in his mother's words) "in a feeble condition, having failed very much since he left New Hampshire ...”source: Wikipedia: Phineas Gage
1859year
Chilementioned“After his health began to fail in mid-1859, he left Chile for San Francisco, arriving (in his mother's words) "in a feeble condition, having failed very much since he left New Hampshire ...”source: Wikipedia: Phineas Gage
1860year
Chilementioned“In 1860, an American physician who had known Gage in Chile in 1858 and 1859 described him as still "engaged in stage driving [and] in the enjoyment of good health, with no impairment whatever of his mental faculties".”source: Wikipedia: Phineas Gage
18 May 1860exact date
Santa Clara County, Californiamentioned“On May 18, 1860, Gage "left Santa Clara and went home to his mother.”source: Wikipedia: Phineas Gage
21 May 1860exact date
San Franciscomentioned“The were repeated frequently during the day and night," and he died in status , in or near San Francisco, late on May 21, 1860.”source: Wikipedia: Phineas Gage
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