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.