i saw a great documentary
the other week about the pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald_McIndoe.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_McIndoe

There were some horrific injuries and even more bizarre fixes, like these 'skin tubes' or Pedicles that the soldiers were grafting on themselves, where they would cut a strip of skin from say their leg, but not cut it completely off, turn it round and attach the other end to another part of their body. Much in the same way a leech might move up your body. Until it got to the place where it was required.

One guy got a new nose from the skin on his arm....as arms have hair, he has to shave his nose every few days.

Much like this handsome fellow


(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 2 Sep 2009, 11:28, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Yeah,
I went to a free exhibition about "Wartime Medicine" at the Wellcome Trust Museum, had a big section about this stuff, really interesting!

They had a huge number of burns victims to hone their skills on, due to the quantities of pilots getting fuel on them.
( Cawl, Wed 2 Sep 2009, 11:41, Reply)