Guinea Pig Club (first plastic surgery in the world)

[mandaltby]

I overcame heroin addiction and feel its so similar to the pain these guys went trough. My scars are on the inside

[CDM2979]

@mandaltby I pray that those scars might also heal one day. Keep going!

[1970mattbradley]

At the beginning you mention two brilliant surgeons a "British and " Canadian.

Dont you mean NZ and Canadian........ How could you get this basic info wrong...You were refering to McIndoe and Tilley.

[mashamorgan]

My mates late dad Mr Ralston from Cleadon was a member of this club. lovely man he was !!

[G1tt7]

God Bless them all

No matter what side they were on

[pyglett]

Although plastic surgery existed in India and Egypt, it was brought into the medical limelight after WW1, when surgeons attempted to rebuild the faces of men horribly disfigured by WW1 ordnance technology. Archie McIndoe took plastic surgery to new heights, but lets all bear in mind that McIndoe didn't just rebuild bodies - he rebuilt the psychological damage and fought to overcome the prejudice these people suffered in employment, pensions and housing.

[3dovecot]

Gillies was a surgeon during WW1, who experimented with reconstructive surgery, and Archibald McIndoe learned much from him to go on and help burned airmen in WW2

[walker763]

They were cousins

[deemilieu]

well, there are reports of plastic surgery...in 15th century italy, for example. it was common punishment then for a nose to be cut off, and there are reports of doctors using a foreheed skin flap to shape a new 'nose'. also, during ww1 surgeons did a lot of reconstructive work on facial traumas from trench warfare. but anyway, i guess it can be argued it didn't become an area of established medicine per se until the 2nd WW.

[uncabro]

wow ...amazing....BUT...the first surgery was in egipt..it was a nosejob to a girl who had his nose blownaway cuz her husband said she was unfaithfull...then they realize she wasnt...and a SURGEON cut a piece of her forehead, turn it over and put it over the nose...and a few dayr later the surgeon cut the little piece of flesh that kept connecting that flesh to the forehead cuz now is healthy and attached to the nose

[djdc1985]

um no it was not! i am doing a research presentation on plastic surgery and very first plastic surgery was done during WWII. which is in this present time during the video with those pics of people to prove it.