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War Surgeons

This severely mutilated soldiers allowed the surgeons for total war new problems, which then not owned solutions. The restoration of the face made a return of the soldier to the trench or the civil society possible again. Without a recovery even this is not possible anymore. For this reason, this form of reparative or restorative surgery as a “social surgery” mentioned. Behind the front lines was desperately looking for a solution to this complicated facial mutilations. The combination of general surgical knowledge with dental or ear, nose and throat experience proved of great utility, since usually upper and lower jaw, nose, eye sockets and sinuses were involved in the accident.

Directory of Surgien

A second surgical Diets manuscript or manuscript from that period is the “Directory of Surgien” master of Thomas Scellinck of Tirlemont from 1343. It houses extensively described in the general treatment of wounds and the medieval techniques for suturing wounds in addition to the acute treatment of burns [the curing of which burned siin, or four or verscroeyt of water] and haze mouths. In addition, the attention devoted to the anatomy. Also this book is a preserved copy held in the Royal Library.

The invention of the printing press by Johann Gutenberg in Mainz around 1450 became the dissemination of science worldwide momentum. Originally published medical books in Latin, the international language learned. This could not classically shaped surgeons do not take note of the content.