Phineas Gage

Contemporary Accounts of...Showing the Location of “Cut” through which Passed the Rutland Burlington Line and the Famous Tamping Iron.

^Sometimes referred to be ‘Famous American crowbar case’ cef.^ Story of the Famous Cavendish, Vt. Case as Told by the Doctor Who Attended the Victim—Reads Like Fiction But Established a Fact.” “Recovery From The Passage Of An Iron Bar Through The Head, Courtesy the Vermont Historical Society, Montpelier, n.d., ms. Misc. File #199 (Cavendish):

Judge Charles H. Scott of Tyson has loaned this paper (Vermont Tribune) a remarkable pamphlet. It has 21 pages, one carrying pictures of skull and bar. It is a report read June 3, 1868 before the Massachusetts Medical Society, by Dr. John M. Harlow, then living in Woburn, Mass.

...This certifies that I served with Christopher W. Goodrich, (aged 82) and Joseph H. Adams (aged about 75) popularly known as “Deaf Joe” as one of the listers or Tax Assessors, in 1906. While we were appraising real estate in the vicinity of the accident to Phineas Gage, Mr. Goodrich showed the exact spot where the accident occurred, and then explained how he took him ^in his ox cart^ to his boarding place in Cavendish village. Gage boarded at the tavern, or hotel, which then stood directly across the road from where the soldiers monument now stands (where the Aura Austin house now stands.)

The accident took place at <a small> the 2nd cut south of Cavendish village nearly opposite where Roswell Downer built his lime kiln later.

Thomas Winslow, who had a cabinet shop below where Floyd Gay’s garage is now situated, was called in to measure Gage (as was the custom in those days) and he made a coffin for him in readiness to use...Dr. Williams, who Dr. Harlow speaks of, lived and practiced medicine in Proctorsville village. <at the time.> Walter A Green

[inscribed, “Written February 26, 1938, by Walton A. Green, Proctorsville, Vt.”]