Phineas Gage Chapter 1 Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 3. author of the book, Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
  2. 4. They made one of these in Boston after his accident, and it shows exactly what the “recovered” Phineas looked like a year after his accident. (see picture)
  3. 7. Dr. Harlow writes, “A child in his __________ __________ and manifestations, he has the animal passions of a strong man.” (Chp 1 Paragraph 33)
  4. 9. special tool used by Phineas to set explosives into rock
  5. 12. “Dr. Harlow does what he can. He cleans the skin around the hole, extracts the small __________ of bone, and gently presses the larger pieces of skull back in place.” (Chp 1 Paragraph 16)
  6. 13. how far away the tamping iron lands from Phineas after the explosion
  7. 15. about how much the iron rod weighed
  8. 16. the mountain range in Vermont they are putting the railroad through
  9. 18. The rod comes out his forehead just above the ____________.
  10. 19. substance first poured into a drilled hole of a big chunk of rock
  11. 20. Amazingly, Phineas climbs up a set of ________ to be examined by the doctor.
  12. 21. An open brain injury is particularly dangerous because it is open to ________ .
  13. 22. the town doctor who oversees Phineas’s case once he gets back in town (Chp 1 Paragraph 15)
  14. 24. professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical College (Chp 1 Paragraph 30)
  15. 27. one of the four humors
  16. 28. Phineas’s injury is an _____ _____ injury. (Chp 1 Paragraph 19)
  17. 31. Dr. Harlow diagnoses an imbalance of bodily “______.” This theory, which goes back to the ancient Greeks, declares that health is maintained by a balance of four liquids, or ______, in the body—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. (Chp 1 Paragraph 28)
  18. 32. The rod enters under Phineas’s left _____________.
  19. 34. substance used to act as a plug to channel the blast downward into rock
  20. 35. Englishman who used a microscope to look at cork “cells” in 1665
  21. 36. man who was terribly injured by a tamping iron
  22. 37. about how long Phineas lived after his accident
  23. 38. “That’s more or less the state of knowledge in 1848. Few doctors have ever used a __________, because it is not considered a medical instrument.” (Chp 1 Paragraph 23)
Down
  1. 1. town and state of Phineas’s accident
  2. 2. Dr. Harlow offers Phineas $1000 for a pocketful of ________.
  3. 5. French scientist who worked on fermentation, decay, and infection and came up with “germ theory” (Chp 1 Paragraph 26)
  4. 6. Hooke called them “cells” because they reminded him of the bare rooms used by monks in a _________. (Chp 1 Paragraph 21)
  5. 8. Phineas’s job title as leader of a track construction gang
  6. 10. “The new Phineas is unreliable and, at times, downright _____.” (Chp 1 Paragraph 32)
  7. 11. He called the very small life forms in a drop of water “animalcules”. (Chp 1 Paragraph 22).
  8. 14. the very first doctor to treat Phineas right after the accident (Chp 1 Paragraph 12)
  9. 17. Phineas’s age at the time of the accident
  10. 18. Title of Chapter 1: “________ ________” in Vermont
  11. 23. English surgeon who wanted to try performing surgery in sterile conditions that excluded or killed all microorganisms (Chp 1 Paragraph 26)
  12. 25. Phineas was working on building a _________.
  13. 26. a common type of closed brain injury
  14. 29. a sign of infection, it’s actually dead white blood cells, a sign that the body’s immune system is attacking bacterial invaders (Chp 1 Paragraph 27)
  15. 30. Along with staphylococci, this is a very dangerous form of bacteria mentioned in Chp 1 Paragraph 24.
  16. 33. one of the four humors