Modern Surgery

• Spanish Flu

  1918-1919
• UK's first kidney transplant

  1960
• World's first heart transplant

  1967, South Africa
• first face transplant

  Spain, 2010
• blood types discovered

  1901, Karl Landsteiner
• Blood banks set up

  1915
• MASH

  Mobile Army Surgeon Hospital
• Sir McIndoe

  Worked on burns

  Improved Gillies skin grafting

  helped patients back into society
• Sir Ridley

  Improved blood trasfusions
• Sir Harold Gilles


  Father of Modern surgery

  was a plastic surgeon and his face reconstructions gave soldiers dignity

  given money and hospital off the government
• Arthur Hurst 


  cured 90% of shell shocked patients

  took them to a Devon farm to work the land

  talking therapy