Report of the Historian Andreas Gohritz FESSH Council

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

Histories of national societies of surgery of the hand New contributions: 1. Spain (Marc Garcia-Elias) 2. Poland ( Congress 2009) 3. Russia (Igor Goloubev) 4. Turkey (Ayan Gülgönen)

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

Sources Already searched: • Journal of Hand Surgery British & European (digital 1984 -2007) • European Journal of Hand Surgery (digital 2007 -2008) • Journal of Hand Surgery American (digital version 1988 -2008) • British J Plast Surg / JPRAS (digital 1950 -2008) about 150 relevant articles To be searched: • Plast Reconstr Surg (digital 1948 -2008)

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

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

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

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

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 (1871 -1968)

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

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

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

Upper extremity sparing after electrical injuries Prevention of immediate amputations for fear of sepsis, proof of possible “self-healing“ Anton von Eiselsberg (1860 -1939)

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

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

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

Sindrome cliniche immediate e tardive da lesioni vascolari nelle fratture degli arti La Riforma Medica (1957) 27, 749 -55 Personal technique of forearm desinsertion (muscle slide) operation in flexion contracture in ischaemic contracture

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.