A gruesome accident that revolutionised our understanding of the brain has been brought to life by science, using the skull of the man who survived it.Phineas Gage was clearing the way for a new rail line in the US state of on September 13, 1848, when an accidental explosion turned his life upside down.An iron rod was blasted up into his head, through his skull, and out the other side, before landing some 80ft away 'smeared with blood and brain'.
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