8.8.4.b.1. Phineas Gage

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If you know the story of Phineas Gage, you can see what massive neuron damage can look like.

Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable[ survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain’s left frontal lobe, and for that injury’s reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life‍—‌effects sufficiently profound that friends saw him (for a time at least) as “no longer Gage”.1

In 1848, Gage, 25, was the foreman of a crew cutting a railroad bed in Cavendish, Vermont. On September 13, as he was using a tamping iron to pack explosive powder into a hole, the powder detonated. The tamping iron—43 inches long, 1.25 inches in diameter and weighing 13.25 pounds—shot skyward, penetrated Gage’s left cheek, ripped into his brain and exited through his skull, landing several dozen feet away. 2

Image: The iron’s path, Skull diagram of Phineas Gage3

Image: CGI image of rod piercing Phineas Gage’s skull4

Though blinded in his left eye, he might not even have lost consciousness, and he remained savvy enough to tell a doctor that day, “Here is business enough for you.”5

Image: Phineas Gage6

Gage’s initial survival would have ensured him a measure of celebrity, but his name was etched into history by observations made by John Martyn Harlow, the doctor who treated him for a few months afterward. Gage’s friends found him“no longer Gage,” Harlow wrote. The balance between his “intellectual faculties and animal propensities” seemed gone. He could not stick to plans, uttered “the grossest profanity” and showed “little deference for his fellows.” The railroad-construction company that employed him, which had thought him a model foreman, refused to take him back. So Gage went to work at a stable in New Hampshire, drove coaches in Chile and eventually joined relatives in San Francisco, where he died in May 1860, at age 36, after a series of seizures.7

In time, Gage became the most famous patient in the annals of neuroscience, because his case was the first to suggest a link between brain trauma and personality change. In his book An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage, the University of Melbourne’s Malcolm Macmillan writes that two-thirds of introductory psychology textbooks mention Gage. Even today, his skull, the tamping iron and a mask of his face made while he was alive are the most sought-out items at the Warren Anatomical Museum on the Harvard Medical School campus.8

Image: Phineas Gage skull and mask9

A report of Gage’s physical and mental condition shortly before his death implies that his most serious mental changes were temporary, so that in later life he was far more functional, and socially far better adapted, than in the years immediately following his accident. A social recovery hypothesis suggests that his work as a stagecoach driver in Chile fostered this recovery by providing daily structure that allowed him to regain lost social and personal skills.10

Image Phineas Gage photograph with frame 11 Photograph of cased-daguerreotype studio portrait of brain-injury survivor Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) shown holding the tamping iron which injured him. Includes view of original embossed brass mat. From the collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus. Like most daguerreotypes, the image seen in this artifact is laterally (left-right) reversed; therefore a second, compensating reversal has been applied to produce this image, so as to show Gage as he appeared in life. That this shows Gage correctly is confirmed by contemporaneous medical reports describing his injuries, as well as from the injuries visible in Gage’s skull and life mask, still preserved. Digitally enhanced and manually retouched.12

Eventhough statistics are limited in what they can measure, they already show vaccines are harming us. 13

What do I mean with limited? How would Phinneas Gage’s14 state show up in a statistic? You can’t make a statistic where you show people lose who they are, especially of it concerns children , who never got a chance to show it in the first place.

What if you have the potential to be a great pianist, and a vaccine takes out the neurons that you need for that ability? How does that show up in a statistic? What if you have an excellent sense of direction, and you lose that after a vaccine? How does that show up in a statistic? What if a baby says his first words after 3 months, and after a vaccine stops talking as much, stops really liking to communicate? How does that show up in a statistic?

Alice lost her muchness, the mad hatter said in Alice in Wonderland. That’s what vaccines do to so many of us.

Aluminum and mercury kill neurons. They sabotage the growth of the amygdala, which is needed for social behavior. And that’s what is put in childhood vaccines, by companies who have art symbolizing a desire for world dominance, who have exemptions from being tried before a court of law when they mess up, who, make huge profits even if they need to pay fines for lethal drugs. Who else is creeped out?

So that’s why Nobel Prize winning remedies are forgotten. Companies with unlimited financial means find it profitable to keep us sick and control whether we live or die. That’s also the change they made to the Hippocratic oath in 1964.

What is damaged most is specifically that which gets the most blood, 15which is what children are best at. So they lose their muchness, as the Mad Hatter in Alice and Wonderland16 would say, and are pulled down to an average level, while always feeling that sense of loss, while not knowing why. The loss they feel is the loss of their future. The loss of the plan Our Heavenly Father had for them when He designed them for what they were supposed to do to feel fulfilled and to build heaven on earth.

And it is a loss for the world as well, because we don’t get to bask in their talents anymore.

So even if they don’t all get autism, they all lose something no one ever knew they had. But the children feel the loss, not knowing why they feel that way and leaving them confused. So while they may not all turn up with severe brain damage, as is shown here17, they all lose something. And if some don’t lose anything, it can be because of the total lack of control what goes in them, the lack of consistency in the vile, which may contain larger amounts of mercury, or none at all, depending on where in the barrels they are and whether the vile has been shaken adequately.

With vaccines being pre approved,18 there is no way of telling what is in them.

Micro biologist Shiv Chopra PhD, former vaccine expert at Health Canada, states that there is no such thing as a safe vaccine, and he adds another explanation why vaccine damage may look so differently from one person to the next.

He says: “In the vaccines there are not just the foreign proteins I talked about, there are also heavy metals. There is mercury, there is aluminum, there is fish oil, there is beef serum, there is pig serum, there is gelatin. All these untested dangerous materials. And formaldehyde, causing cancer. All these cellular agents that are not even declared. They’re in the vaccine. So when you take this shot, this injection, as it goes in, it explodes inside your body like a cluster bomb, and hits every part and organ of the body. What ever it hits gets knocked out. If it’s the brain, the child gets a fever for a day, and the next day the mother says: what happened to this child? It becomes autistic. If the pancreas gets in the way, there is diabetes. If the thyroid comes in the way, there is obesity. And then there are all these viruses causing cancer.”19

The pineal gland isn’t known to be damaged by vaccines. Fluoridation and caffeine calcifies it.20 And with a less functional pineal gland, mercury damage is less likely to heal.21

You can’t say they’re not thorough. They have all the exits covered.

The pattern is that when they take one substance out because it is finally proven to be toxic, they replace it with an even more toxic one, like when they replaced mercury with aluminum22 in vaccines.

And if you think aluminum is any better, think again.

A study published in 2013 in pubmed says:

We have examined the neurotoxicity of aluminum in humans and animals under various conditions, following different routes of administration, and provide an overview of the various associated disease states. The literature demonstrates clearly negative impacts of aluminum on the nervous system across the age span. In adults, aluminum exposure can lead to apparently age-related neurological deficits resembling Alzheimer’s and has been linked to this disease and to the Guamanian variant, ALS-PDC. Similar outcomes have been found in animal models. In addition, injection of aluminum adjuvants in an attempt to model Gulf War syndrome and associated neurological deficits leads to an ALS phenotype in young male mice. In young children, a highly significant correlation exists between the number of pediatric aluminum-adjuvanted vaccines administered and the rate of autism spectrum disorders. Many of the features of aluminum-induced neurotoxicity may arise, in part, from autoimmune reactions, as part of the ASIA syndrome.23

1Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient, An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history’s most famous brain-injury survivor, Smithsonian Magazine, January 2010, Steve Twomey, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/

2Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient, An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history’s most famous brain-injury survivor, Smithsonian Magazine, January 2010, Steve Twomey, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/

3The iron’s path, Skull diagram of Phineas Gage, Neurophilosophy, December 4, 2006, John M. Harlow, M.D. – http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/12/04/the-incredible-case-of-phineas-gage/Skull diagram of Phineas Gage., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage#/media/File:Phineas_gage_-_1868_skull_diagram.jpg

4CGI image of rod piercing en:Phineas Gage’s skull , Wikipedia, April 11, 2007, taken from en:NINDS public domain page at http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/pubs/tbi.htmFile:Phineas Gage CGI.jpg, Téléversé : 11 avril 2007, https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage#/media/Fichier:Phineas_Gage_CGI.jpg

5Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient, An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history’s most famous brain-injury survivor, Smithsonian Magazine, January 2010, Steve Twomey, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/

6Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient, An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history’s most famous brain-injury survivor, Smithsonian Magazine, January 2010, Steve Twomey, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/

7Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient, An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history’s most famous brain-injury survivor, Smithsonian Magazine, January 2010, Steve Twomey, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/

8Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient, An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history’s most famous brain-injury survivor, Smithsonian Magazine, January 2010, Steve Twomey, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/

9Phineas Gage skull and mask Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient, An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history’s most famous brain-injury survivor, Smithsonian Magazine, January 2010, Steve Twomey, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/

10Phineas Gage, Wikipedia, edited January 25, 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

11Phineas Gage photograph with frame, Wikipedia, December 19, 2008, Photograph by Jack and Beverly Wilgus of daguerreotype originally from their collection, and now in the Warren Anatomical Museum, Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Enlarged using Waifu2x and retouched by Joe Haythornthwaite (see notes on talk page). — Travail personnel, ttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage#/media/Fichier:Phineas_Gage_Cased_Daguerreotype_WilgusPhoto2008-12-19_EnhancedRetouched_Color.jpg

12Phineas Gage photograph with frame, Wikipedia, December 19, 2008, Photograph by Jack and Beverly Wilgus of daguerreotype originally from their collection, and now in the Warren Anatomical Museum, Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Enlarged using Waifu2x and retouched by Joe Haythornthwaite (see notes on talk page). — Travail personnel, ttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage#/media/Fichier:Phineas_Gage_Cased_Daguerreotype_WilgusPhoto2008-12-19_EnhancedRetouched_Color.jpg

13The case medical doctors and PhD’s make against vaccines , Scentses4d,, April 29, 2019, first published in Scentses.isgezond.moerstaal.com, 2013 Anna Elize, https://scentses4d.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/the-case-medical-doctors-and-phds-make-against-vaccines/

14Why Brain Scientists Are Still Obsessed With The Curious Case Of Phineas Gage, NPR, May 21, 2017, Jon Hamilton, https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/21/528966102/why-brain-scientists-are-still-obsessed-with-the-curious-case-of-phineas-gage?t=1639918785038

15Dr Shiv Chopra, PhD Microbiologist, vaccine expert, Scentses4d, April 29,2019, Anna Elizel https://scentses4d.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/dr-shiv-chopra-phd-microbiologist-vaccine-expert/

16Alice In Wonderland (You’ve Lost Your Muchness Scene), February 25, 2010, Tim Burton Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, February 25, 2010 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haiF5DOWwRo

17Before and After the Vaccine: This is what Mass Brain destruction looks like,Scentses4d, May 1, 2019, Anna Elize, https://scentses4d.wordpress.com/2019/05/01/before-and-after-the-vaccine/ Before and After the Vaccine: This is what Mass Brain destruction looks like,Scentses4d, May 1, 2019, Anna Elize, https://scentses4d.wordpress.com/2019/05/01/before-and-after-the-vaccine/

18Hillary Clinton’s Foundation Arranged for Chinese Vaccine Makers to Avoid U.S. Scrutiny, World Health Organization Report Reveals, Scentses4d, September 11, 2019, https://scentses4d.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/hillary-clintons-foundation-arranged-for-chinese-vaccine-makers-to-avoid-u-s-scrutiny-world-health-organization-report-reveals/

19 Dr Shiv Chopra, PhD Microbiologist, vaccine expert, Scentses4d, April 29,2019, Anna Elize, https://scentses4d.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/dr-shiv-chopra-phd-microbiologist-vaccine-expert/

20Pineal gland dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease: relationship with the immune-pineal axis, sleep disturbance, and neurogenesis, PubMed, July 11, 2019,Song J. Pineal gland dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease: relationship with the immune-pineal axis, sleep disturbance, and neurogenesis. Mol Neurodegener. 2019 Jul 11;14(1):28. doi: 10.1186/s13024-019-0330-8. PMID: 31296240; PMCID: PMC6624939. Juhyun Song 1 , Department of Anatomy, Chonnam National University Medical School, Hwasun, 58128, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea. juhyunsong@chonnam.ac.kr., https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31296240/

21Melatonin protects against mercury(II)-induced oxidative tissue damage in rats, PubMed, December 2003, Sener G, Sehirli AO, Ayanoglu-Dülger G. Melatonin protects against mercury(II)-induced oxidative tissue damage in rats. Pharmacol Toxicol. 2003 Dec;93(6):290-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0773.2003.pto930607.x. PMID: 14675463., Göksel Sener 1, A Ozer Sehirli, Gül Ayanoglu-Dülger, Marmara University, School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology, Istanbul, Turkey. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14675463/

22How aluminum in vaccines damages the nervous system, April 6, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9tJo2Gwog This video was taken down, but the damgiung effect of vaccines has been scientifucally researched and confirmed: Aluminum in the central nervous system (CNS): toxicity in humans and animals, vaccine adjuvants, and autoimmunity, PubMed, July 2013, Shaw CA, Tomljenovic L. Aluminum in the central nervous system (CNS): toxicity in humans and animals, vaccine adjuvants, and autoimmunity. Immunol Res. 2013 Jul;56(2-3):304-16. doi: 10.1007/s12026-013-8403-1. PMID: 23609067. C A Shaw 1, L Tomljenovic, 1Neural Dynamics Research Group, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia (UBC), 828 W. 10th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1L8, Canada. cashawlab@gmail.com, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23609067/

23Aluminum in the central nervous system (CNS): toxicity in humans and animals, vaccine adjuvants, and autoimmunity, PubMed, July 2013, Shaw CA, Tomljenovic L. Aluminum in the central nervous system (CNS): toxicity in humans and animals, vaccine adjuvants, and autoimmunity. Immunol Res. 2013 Jul;56(2-3):304-16. doi: 10.1007/s12026-013-8403-1. PMID: 23609067. C A Shaw 1, L Tomljenovic, 1Neural Dynamics Research Group, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia (UBC), 828 W. 10th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1L8, Canada. cashawlab@gmail.com, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23609067/

Chapter 8.8.4.b.1. from Dandhea Book I, only I left the most graphic pictures out so it is still a family friendly book,

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