Cabinet-card portrait of brain-injury survivor <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage" title="Phineas Gage">Phineas P. Gage</a> (1823–1860), shown holding the tamping iron which injured him; image cropped to remove much of surrounding card. From the Gage family of Texas photo collection. An identical image is in the possession of Phyllis Gage Hartley of New Jersey. <i>Because a daguerreotype is almost always laterally (left-right) reversed, a second, compensating reversal has been applied to produce this image, so as to show Gage as he appeared in life; that this shows Gage correctly is confirmed by contemporaneous medical reports describing his injuries, as well as from the injuries visible in Gage's skull, still preserved.</i>
Author of underlying work unknown.
underlying work not after 1860
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