The first 1,000 people to sign up to Skillshare will get their first 2 months for free: https://skl.sh/infographics34 How did the man with an iron rod through his head survive? What is his story? What made his body able to sustain this? Today we’ll talk about one of the greatest survivors in history, in this episode of The Infographics Show, Phineas Gage - How Did He Survive? Phineas Gage has been called “Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient,” but who was he before he became a miracle of science? Not too much is known about his early life, only that he was born in New Hampshire, USA, in 1823 and had four siblings. It’s believed as a young man he was strong, tall, and handsome. Notes found from one of his doctors when Gage was 25 tell us he possessed “an iron will as well as an iron frame; a muscular system unusually well-developed‍.” This might have been a reason why later he would become a living legend. This strong and durable fellow started working on the railroads in his twenties and soon became a blasting foreman. The railroads, of course, met with resistance in the form of nature, and sometimes rocks needed to be blasted away. SUBSCRIBE TO US -► http://bit.ly/TheInfographicsShow -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEBSITE (SUGGEST A TOPIC): http://theinfographicsshow.com/ SUPPORT US: Patreon.......► https://www.patreon.com/theinfographicsshow SOCIAL: Twitter........► https://twitter.com/TheInfoShow Subreddit...► http://reddit.com/r/TheInfographicsShow -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sources for this episode: https://pastebin.com/bHHYLPZM