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1 Report of the Historian
Andreas Gohritz FESSH Council Meeting December 20th, 2008, Firenze

2 Histories of national societies of surgery of the hand
New contributions: Spain (Marc Garcia-Elias) Poland ( Congress 2009) Russia (Igor Goloubev) 4. Turkey (Ayan Gülgönen)

3 History of Hand Surgery
Linked Web-site on History of Hand Surgery Journals (Pubmed, Science direct): Biographies / Orbituaries Procedures / Techniques Associations / Meetings

4 Sources Already searched:  about 150 relevant articles
Journal of Hand Surgery British & European (digital ) European Journal of Hand Surgery (digital ) Journal of Hand Surgery American (digital version ) British J Plast Surg / JPRAS (digital )  about 150 relevant articles To be searched: Plast Reconstr Surg (digital )

5 Otto Hilgenfeldt scholar-ship provided by the
German Society of Hand Surgery (and industry) To be implemented 2009 ?

6 Ernst Weber „Über den Tastsinn“
(About the sense of touch), 1834 Weber test = Two-point-discrimination Lee A. Dellon

7 Igino Tansini‘s description of the latissimus dorsi flap and his merits for modern flap surgery
Sopra il mio nuovo processo di ampu- tazione della mamella. Gazzetta Medica Italiana (1906) 12: 757

8 Principles of Tansini‘s new method
Axial vascular pedicle of flap Integrity of muscle-skin-unit Importance of perforators = Fundament of all modern flap techniques, including perforator flaps

9 Prof. Stefan Jellinek (1871-1968) – Pioneer of electrical injury therapy
Objective: To remind of the life and work of physician and electro-pathologist Prof. Stefan Jellinek ( )

10 Electropathological Museum
2002 closed, objects partly visible at Technical Museum and Narrenturm-Museum, Vienna

11 Therapy of „Apparent death“ after electrocution
High voltage injuries is NOT always deadly, reanimation useful ! Tongue clamp for unconcious electrical injury victim Reanimation by thorax compression

12 Extremity electrical injury
Anatomical speciman High voltage electrical injury  immediate amputation for fear of sepsis

13 Upper extremity sparing after electrical injuries
Prevention of immediate amputations for fear of sepsis, proof of possible “self-healing“ Anton von Eiselsberg ( )

14 Secondary amputation after high voltage electrical extremity trauma
Edema of forearm / elbow Mumification Sekundary upper arm amputation „Damage cannot be estimated primarily“

15 Exile in England, Queen ‘s College, Oxford
Forced Emigration 1939 March 1938: Nazi Annexion of Austria June 1938: Dismissal of Jellinek January 1939: Prohibition of further work Jellinek looses Chair of Elektropathology, (since 1929), expropriation of his collection. Exile in England, Queen ‘s College, Oxford Salary as assistant, published until 96 years as “Late research fellow“, 1968: death in Oxford

16 Otto Scaglietti (+1993) Orthopaedic surgeon in Bologna / Florence
Founder of Italian Society of Surgery of the Hand First hand replantation in Italy in 1960s

17 Sindrome cliniche immediate e tardive da lesioni vascolari nelle
fratture degli arti La Riforma Medica (1957) 27, Personal technique of forearm desinsertion (muscle slide) operation in flexion contracture in ischaemic contracture

18 Scaglietti‘s conculion
… confirms to you that we surgeons are not, as frequently pictured in carricatures, men covered with blood who fumble around with knifes, saws or other torture instruments, but humans with empathic souls who are driven, before they move their hands, by inspirition and empathy for our patients.


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