• Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    Thanks for bringing up MacMillan. Manon Auffret has more recently researched the newspaper coverage of Gage, and her research adds a great deal of evidence supporting MacMillan’s arguments. Basically, there’s a lot of sensationalist and verifiably false stories about Gage. There’s no evidence from the time period of personality changes, and a lot of the wild stories appeared decades after his death, probably fabricated. Allegedly Gage was a drunk, but the evidence shows he abstained completely. Allegedly he beat his wife, but evidence shows he was never married. Allegedly he was a circus performer but there’s no evidence from the time period to support this.

    https://n.neurology.org/content/98/18_Supplement/1560

    • Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      Well thank you for pointing me to the abatract. Makes me want to see the actual poster.