Originally Posted by Kuan

Does anyone remember that famous case in neurology where a man had a length of pipe embedded in his head? There was an explosion which sent a piece of hot pipe through this guy's head. It cauterized the wound immediately but it affected the guy's Broca's area or something. It was in one of my old textbooks, for some reason I can't find it on the web.

Goes to show you actually that books are still a good source of information.