Phineas Gage

by John Fleischman
PRMS Mary's collection audioCDs 1.5 hours
read by Kevin Orton

Fascinating! I have been meaning to read this for years. It's much more about the brain and developing theories (in the 1800s) about how the brain works. Amazing and bizarre that Phineas survived this crazy accident.

Odd thing, though . . . the photo of his skull shows a hole in the *right* side of his face, but the book definitely talked about the spike going through the left side. Unless by "left" side, they mean as one was looking AT him . . . odd, though. I always though that when one talks about a body part, it is from the perspective of the one in the body!