Who wrote On Animal Grafts in 1804?
Baronio. Following his experiments using grafts on animals, mainly using the backs of rams, Giuseppe Baronio wrote Degli Innesti Animale in 1804. He demonstrated their feasibility and clarified several biological aspects of the method.
Flagellation of the skin graft donor site was first reported in which country?
India. Henri M Dutrochet wrote in 1817 that his brother-in-law had witnessed the procedure in India: “prior to cutting a graft from the buttock the skin was beaten vigorously with a slipper until this produced considerable swelling.” Dutrochet discovered cell physiology and the process of osmosis. Tom Gibson of Glasgow wrote about the method in 1961.
Who developed the very thin skin graft?
Thiersch. Carl Thiersch (1822-1895), from Munich, used very thin grafts. He experimented on the leg of a soldier who was about to have his limb amputated and made observations on the macroscopic and microscopic changes in these grafts on the limb once removed. He used a special razor to cut these very thin grafts which represented a shift in the prevalent method of thick grafting.
Famous victims of ear trauma include:
Vincent van Gogh.
Who introduced ‘pinch grafts’?
Reverdin. Jacques Louis Reverdin (1842-1929) studied at Hôpital Necker in Paris. Like many surgeons of the day, he gained valuable experience in the Franco-Prussian War treating wounds and amputation stumps with his pinch grafts. After observing Reverdin’s method, George Pollock returned to England where these grafts were called Pollock grafts. George Lawson then used larger, full thickness ‘four-penny’ grafts to cover all the surface of a granulating wound.
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