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[Ryo]

One of my wrestlers got a mangled head while sparring, and went to bed to rest (so I called him "Bed-Head" and enrolled him in the fortress guard).

So far, a couple of seasons later, it has healed to broken and he is still resting in bed. This could be because he isn't tough, though.

[krumlink]

Well my broken head miner finally ran out of fuel, and he went unconscious on the forts so far only bed (spent 2 years building the massive castle). He rested up ate and drank and he married one of the fortresses girls. Makes no sense how he could marry somebody unconsciously. It healed to moderate and he is now helping the other miners dig out the magma tunnels

[Jetman123]

It was a shotgun (err, crossbow) wedding.

[Jude]

On a related topic...one of my dogs got mauled in a werewolf attack (one back leg torn off, front leg mangled) and it's just laying around unconcious...should I mark it for butchering or just wait for it to die? Or will it actually ever heal?

[krumlink]

On a related topic...one of my dogs got mauled in a werewolf attack (one back leg torn off, front leg mangled) and it's just laying around unconcious...should I mark it for butchering or just wait for it to die? Or will it actually ever heal?

It will probably take a few years for the dog to heal. If you have another dog of the same gender  I would butcher that one.

"I always wanted dog leather armor!"

[DwarfMan69]

Dwarf Phineas Gage?

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On September 13, 1848, Phineas Gage was foreman of a work gang blasting rock while clearing the roadbed for a new rail line outside the town of Cavendish, Vermont. After a hole was drilled into a body of rock, one of Gage's duties was to add gunpowder, a fuse, and sand, then tamp the charge down with a large iron rod. Possibly because the sand was omitted, around 4:30 P.M. "the powder exploded, carrying an instrument through his head an inch and a fourth in circumference, and three feet and eight inches in length, which he was using at the time. The iron entered on the side of his face, shattering the upper jaw, and passing back of the left eye, and out at the top of the head" (Boston Post for September 21, shown left, reprinting a report in the Ludlow [Vermont] Free Soil Union). In fact, the iron was 1-1/4 inches in diameter, not "circumference," and was three feet seven inches long. Weighing 13-1/4lb (6 kg), the rod was said to have landed some 80 feet (25 meters) away.

Amazingly, Gage spoke within a few minutes, walked with little or no assistance, and sat upright in a cart for the 3/4-mile ride to town. Though physicians Edward H. Williams and John Martyn Harlow found him weak from hemorrhage, he had a regular pulse of about 60 and was alert and coherent.

Does your guy keep passing out? I have one like that in my current fortress who does, and the job cancellation spam gets really annoying.

Gage is such an instreasting story. Did you read the book?

[Muz]

I read somewhere in development that Toady is upgrading the wound system. Scarring sounds fun

[1138]

Gage is such an instreasting story. Did you read the book?

Hmm, until you posted that I didn't even know there was a book. What's it called? The story creeps me out a bit; it's disturbing to think that one little accident and everything that makes you you goes down the drain.

Update on my little guy: he was one of my original seven and I didn't want to off him, so I set him on a strict regimen of bookkeeping to get his stats up. Once he took a few levels in toughness he stopped passing out.

[Jetman123]

Gage is such an instreasting story. Did you read the book?

Hmm, until you posted that I didn't even know there was a book. What's it called? The story creeps me out a bit; it's disturbing to think that one little accident and everything that makes you you goes down the drain.

Update on my little guy: he was one of my original seven and I didn't want to off him, so I set him on a strict regimen of bookkeeping to get his stats up. Once he took a few levels in toughness he stopped passing out.

Or as a child, someone sticks an icepick into your eye and removes your frontal lobes. We actually did that, before we realized "Oh, hey, we're removing everything that makes them THEM just to fix a few behavioural problems".

Besides, the brain is a weird thing. Even if you lose your frontal lobes, you can eventually regain something like their use. Brain tissue is adaptable, and you never know - other parts of your brain may pick up the slack.

[Skizelo]

There's an excellent BBC program on surgery, which opened up with Brain surgery. They tracked down a bus driver who had a lobotomy in his youth (12? I think he was 12), and, although a CAT scan showed large dead areas in the frontal lobe, his brain had managed to rewire.
 TOADY, YOUR MODEL OF THE BRAIN IS LUDICROUSLY SIMPLE. SIMULATE NEURONS.

[Draco18s]

We totally need the hippocampus added.  Dwarves who lose it start to forget things!

(The hippocampus is responsible for converting short term memory to long term memory)

[Jetman123]

Don't forget the temporal section of the brain, which contains short term memory and emotional responses to memory. We could have insane dwarves with the Capgras delusion.

[Neonivek]

Don't forget about 1/3rd of the brain. that controls Sight. In fact if I am wrong it is only because it is actually 2/3rds of the brain.

Interestingly it is actually located at the back of your head

[Skizelo]

You could remove everything except the brainstem and see if you can have your very own headless goblin.

[Jetman123]

Don't forget about 1/3rd of the brain. that controls Sight. In fact if I am wrong it is only because it is actually 2/3rds of the brain.

Interestingly it is actually located at the back of your head

Yeah, the rear of your head has primarily to do with sight, but it also helps with other sensory inputs. Sight is a complex sense.