Surgeons attach man's hand to groin in effort to prevent amputation

[Penn]

If you're 15....


https://www.foxnews.com/health/surge...ans-hand-groin

Amazing outcome.

[JJ_BPK]

Awesome..

I can remember reading my mom's surgery textbooks. There was a large section on using the body to regenerate soft tissues. She went thur nursing school in the early 40t's, so the book had examples from WW I servicemen that were injured in the trenches.

Here is an article of the 1st WW I "plastic" surgery patient.

By Daily Telegraph reporter

8:35AM BST 28 Aug 2008

The photographs show before, during and after pictures of the ground-breaking medical procedure carried out on sailor Walter Yeo.

Walter sustained terrible facial injuries including the loss of upper and lower eyelids while manning the guns aboard HMS Warspite in 1916.

In 1917 he was treated by Sir Harold Gillies - the first man to use skin grafts from undamaged areas on the body - and know as 'the father of plastic surgery'.

London-based Gillies opened a specialist ward for the treatment of the facially-wounded at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, Kent.

Walter Yeo is thought to be the first patient to benefit from his newly-developed technique - a form of skin grafting called 'tubed pedical'.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...-released.html

[Golf1echo]

When I worked for CONG we swapped out two field hospitals in Eastern Colo. Most equipment was to be accounted for some was not. Among the non turn in items one of the units had a book on psychiatry (rorschach tests,etc...) https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is...t-test-2795806

The other unit had a book of combat facial injuries. Absolutely shocking, on one page the patients injuries were splayed out with a green back ground and the accompanying page had an image of the soldier after he had healed from surgery. It was horrific to see those first images and amazing to see the images of the soldiers afterwards. I’m guessing the surgery book was from the Korean Conflict perhaps WWII but I certainly will never forget the shock at seeing those first images. God bless those surgeons and those that helped the injured heal!
I see a few before/after images in several searches, as incredible as some are very few convey those first images from that book.

Edit: Perhaps I should apologize, JJs post reminded me of those images, lost track this is the comedy section...