What The History Podcast

Holey Gage and Saving Lincoln

In this episode Suzie examines a medical oddity and Trevor recounts a particularly amazing coincidence.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

PHINEAS GAGE

Center for NeuroSkills 2019, ‘Frontal Lobes’  https://www.neuroskills.com/brain-injury/frontal-lobes.php

Cherry K 2018, ‘Phineas Gage’s Brain Injury – His Injury Led to New Discoveries in Neuroscience’  https://www.verywellmind.com/phineas-gage-2795244

Costandi M 2010, ‘Phineas Gage and the effect of an iron bar through the head on personality’ https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2010/nov/05/phineas-gage-head-personality

Haas L 2001, ‘Phineas Gage and the science of brain localisation’, Journal of Neurology, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Vol. 71, Issue 6 https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/71/6/761

Harvard Brain Tour 2016, ‘The Improbable Tale of Phineas Gage’ http://braintour.harvard.edu/archives/portfolio-items/phineas-gage

Mcmillian M 2008, ‘Phineas Gage – Unravelling the myth’, The British Psychological Society, The Psychologist, Vol. 21, pp. 838-831 http://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-21/edition-9/phineas-gage-unravelling-myth

National Post 2015, ‘How Phineas Gage survived a horrific brain injury to become one of the most famous names in medical history’ https://nationalpost.com/news/how-phineas-gage-survived-a-horrific-brain-injury-to-become-one-of-the-most-famous-names-in-medical-history

The University of Akron 2019, ‘The Phineas Gage story’ https://www.uakron.edu/gage/story.dot

Today I Found Out 2019, ‘The Remarkable Tale of Phineas Gage’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw0zbyQVCEc

Twomey S 2010, ‘Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient’ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/

Warren Museum at Harvard University School of Medicine n.d., ‘Phineas Gage 1823-1860’  http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/exhibits?page=4

EDWIN BOOTH AND ROBERT LINCOLN

John Wilkes Booth’s Brother Saved Abraham Lincoln’s Son’s Life Shortly Before Lincoln Was Assassinated – Today I Found Out (Nov 1, 2010)

John Wilkes Booth’s Brother Saved Abe Lincoln’s Son – Mental Floss (Mar 22, 2017)

Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth’s brother, saved the life of Robert Lincoln, on a train platform – The Vintage News (Jan 23, 2017)

John Wilkes Booth’s Brother Saved Abe Lincoln’s Son – KnowledgeNuts (Nov 2, 2013)

You Thought Abe Lincoln Had Bad Luck? Meet His Son, Robert – Did You Know Facts

Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination – history.com (Oct 27, 2009)

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out – Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now) – Cracker

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