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Many cultures traditionally placed the seat of consciousness in the heart or liver, etc, (i.e. not the brain). Did people in the medieval European or Islamic worlds believe that a chest/heart injury could lead to behavioral change the way moderns, in Phineas Gage fashion, believe about brain injury?

by /u/screwyoushadowban in /r/AskHistorians

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