The True Story of Phineas Gage Is Much More Fascinating Than the Mythical Textbook AccountsScience Phineas Gage, Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient Each generation revises his myth. Here’s the true story. From a virtuous foreman to a sociopathic drifter On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day when the mind might start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage filled a drill hole with gunpowder and turned his head to check on his men. It was the last normal moment
