Guinea Pig Club (first plastic surgery in the world)

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Through the eyes of the most painfully exclusive club in the world, this documentary tells the story of two WWII pioneering plastic surgeons and their revolutionary approach to reconstructive surgery. Their radical holistic and surgical techniques brought back airmen so horribly burned and broken they believed they might as well be dead. Startling archival footage is interwoven with interviews with the airmen who reunited to tell their story, and that of the doctors who changed the face of history.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• world
• war
• two
• fighter
• pilot
• bomber
• crash
• burn
• plastic
• surgery
• reconstructive
• england
• canada
• germans
• club
• veterans
• raf

[CDM2979]

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

[mandaltby]

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

[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 !!

[walker763]

They were cousins

[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

[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.

[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.