The patient was thrown backward
and gave a few convulsive movements of the extremities. He was
taken to a hotel 3/4 mile distant, and during the transportation
seemed slightly dazed, but not at all unconscious. Upon arriving
at the hotel he dismounted from the conveyance, and without
assistance walked up a long flight of stairs to the hall where
his wound was to be dressed. Harlow saw him at about six o'clock
in the evening, and from his condition could hardly credit the
story of his injury, although his person and his bed were
drenched with blood. His scalp was shaved, the coagula and debris
removed, and among other portions of bone was a piece of the
anterior superior angle of each parietal bone and a semicircular
piece of the frontal bone, leaving an opening 3 1/2 inches in
diameter. At 10 P.M. on the day of the injury Gage was perfectly
rational and asked about his work and after his friends. After a
while delirium set in for a few days, and on the eleventh day he
lost the vision in the left eye. His convalescence was rapid and
uneventful. It was said that he discharged pieces of bone and
cerebral substance from his mouth for a few days. The iron when
found was smeared with blood and cerebral substance.
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