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Report of the Historian. Andreas Gohritz. FESSH Council Meeting December 5-6th, 2009, Firenze. 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).
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Report of the Historian Andreas Gohritz FESSH Council Meeting December 5-6th, 2009, Firenze
Histories of national societiesof surgery of the hand • New contributions: • Spain (Marc Garcia-Elias) • Poland ( Congress 2009) • Russia (Igor Goloubev) • 4. Turkey (Ayan Gülgönen)
Joint denervation • Upper extremity • Shoulder • Elbow • Wrist • Finger joints • Thumb joints • Lower extremity • Knee • Sinus tarsi Lee A. Dellon
Albrecht Wilhelm (*1925) Ulrich Lanz Titus von Lanz Albrecht Wilhelm 1955-58: Studies on the joint innervation of the upper extremity Anatomische Anstalt in Munich
Nicolaus Rüdinger (*1832 +1896) Barber, Surgeon, Anatomist Munich, Germany • 1st Photographical Atlas in Anatomy (1871) • Embalmed Ludwig II (1888)
“The Joint Nerves of the Human Body“ (1847) “ there is only here and there mention of nerve branches going to a joint …“
Themistocles Gluck (*1853 +1942) an early visionary ofreplacement surgery
Glucks innovations • Nerve sutures / tubes • Joint prosthesis • Shoulder / Wrist • Knee / Ankle • Biocompatibility / Allografts • Experimental animal surgery • Organ resection / substituion • Surgery of the larynx • Vessel surgery (before Carrel) • Anticoagulation (leech extract)
Ernst von Bergmann (*1836 +1907) Chair of Surgery Charité 1882-1907 “ As the leader of German Surgery I cannot allow you to discredit it … and most strictly forbid you …“ (Letter to Gluck, World Con- gress of Surgery, Berlin1890)
On the potential influence of one-handedness on politics and philosophy of the 20th century J Hand Surg A July-Aug 2009 (Letter) Ludwig (philosopher), Paul Wittgenstein (pianist) Wilhelm II (left Erbs palsy) „An English-man has crippled my arm“ “1. If you do know there is a hand, we'll grant you all the rest. 2. From its seeming to me, or to anyone, to be so, it doesn't follow that it is so.” (On Certainty, 1951)