Phineas Gage Chapter 3

In New York, it is theorized that Phineas may have joined the Barnums Museum. Describe this museum.

• A show with strange and unusual people

• A museum of relics and old items

• A medical intuition where unique abilities are studied

• A school for wizards and warlocks

T or F...After Phineas leaves Boston, according to his mother...

• in works in a stable before moving to Chile to drive a stage coach

• buys a farm where he grows corn and marries a woman named Delilah

• goes back to school and becomes a doctor that specializes in brain injuries

• moves to New Mexica were he joins the armys fight against native americans

T or F...During this time epileptic seizures were controllable?

• True

• False

T or F...Once doctors provide Phineas with medication his seizures become more bearable and lessen over time.

• True

• False

What is meant by the term "bleeds him" in this chapter?

• The doctors take extra blood out of Phineas body

• The doctors dye his blood to view were the infection is

• The doctors inject Phineas blood with antibiotics

• The doctors give blood to Phineas from his mother

What is the immediate cause of Phineas death?

• Seizure

• Hypothermia

• tamping iron

• stroke

T or F...After Phineas death, there is a large funeral celebrating "The Man with a Hole in his Head."

• True

• False

Once Phineas dies, what historical event do doctors turn to?

• prohibition

• Civil War

• Spanish-American War

• The War of 1812

If the Broca's area of the brain is damaged, you will lose the ability to?

• Speak

• Hear

• Laugh

• Think

What ability does Carl Wernicke study using the temporal lobe?

• ability to hear

• ability to understand

• ability to see

• ability to talk