We watched a movie about Phineas Gage in a psychology class I took last fall. I remember that I hadn't eaten a thing that morning (and I suffer from low blood sugar- bad idea). About 30 seconds after the poor sap got the iron through his head, I had broken out in a cold sweat and was fighting not to throw up. I'm still not sure whether it was my hypoglycemia, or if the story itself just made me sick.