World War Facial Injuries (1 Viewer)

[Sulphur]

Google translate:

"QUEEN'S HOSPITAL WAS A BEAUTY CARE CENTER FOR THE WORLD WAR WHERE THE WOUNDED IN COMBAT WOUNDED STRAIN IN THE FACE ESPECIALLY IN THE JAW

AT THAT TIME THE COSMETIC SURGERY AND SURGERY IN GENERAL WAS NOT DEVELOPED AND EVEN AFTER THE DISCOVERY AND THANKS MICROSCOPE ACA FULL SUIT THEM SOME PICTURES OF THE RESULTS OF THESE SURGERIES"

Basically these guys got fucked up and because of the lack of knowledge of reconstruction/plastic surgery these unfortunate fellows lived the rest of their lives disfigured.

A couple of these remind me of leather face from the Texas chainsaw massacre.

 

[Béla Kiss]

That was my first thought on looking at some of these: Dead skin mask. Also, what injury causes the tentacle looking things on pic 1, 5, 9, 14, 15 and 18? Bizarre. Very sad for these poor fellows.

 

[Deathbringer]

Great pics! I was waiting for some of these pictures about the faces of WW I

 

[Psycho Lady]

It reminded me of being on acid and seeing people's faces melting.

 

[Sulphur]

I'm not sure Béla I've been trying to find out more about it but not coming up with anything. I think the tentacle looking things may be melted skin from burns.

That was my first thought on looking at some of these: Dead skin mask. Also, what injury causes the tentacle looking things on pic 1, 5, 9, 14, 15 and 18? Bizarre. Very sad for these poor fellows.

 

[Béla Kiss]

I'm not sure Béla I've been trying to find out more about it but not coming up with anything. I think the tentacle looking things may be melted skin from burns.

Melting makes sense actually, thanks for your input.

1, 5 and 10 look like the same guy to me, only in different stages of botched surgery. Front teeth resemble Chiclets. Nice pics Sulphur.

 

[McM]

I think the tentacle looking things may be melted skin from burns.

It's a medical treatment to keep the face supplied with blood, it will be removed later.

 

[Béla Kiss]

It's a medical treatment to keep the face supplied with blood, it will be removed later.

Cool! Thanks for the explanation.

 

[McM]

More here.

http://forum.goregrish.com/threads/vintage-wwi-war-injuries.12084/

 

[Sulphur]

Very cool, thanks for clarifying

It's a medical treatment to keep the face supplied with blood, it will be removed later.

 

[rottenfresh]

I bet after their injuries they had substance abuse problems. Imagine having to live like that.

 

[Sulphur]

Well back then all those substances were legal. That's probably around the time there was actually coke in Coca Cola lol

I bet after their injuries they had substance abuse problems. Imagine having to live like that.

 

[Staggerg]

I bet after their injuries they had substance abuse problems. Imagine having to live like that.

I couldn't think of living like that, the poor buggers

 

[DeadZone]

Looks like these guys were guinea pigs for what, at the time, was a new era of medical science in plastic surgery and facial reconstruction, one that today sadly is afforded to vain self obsessed people who want to do what celebrities do more than it is to people who have suffered severe disfigurement in battle like these poor guys did.

I would assume they led very reclusive lives afterwards and it wouldn't surprise me if there were suicides amongst them, very, very sad.

 

[Boxersam101]

I believe it was a medical procedure similar to the one used in the television show "The Knick" in the early 1900's. They'd basically use the excess skin around your bicep/tricep area and sew it to your face while keeping your arms strapped up until they could cut it loose and sew the rest on.