First Plastic Surgery

Today, we might not like it very much but back in those days it was a huge achievement in medical history. Walter Yeo was a British sailor during World War I, and is often cited as the first known person to have benefited from plastic surgery. He sustained terrible facial injuries, which included  the loss of his upper and lower eyelids, while operating the guns aboard the HMS Warspite in 1916 during the Battle of Jutland. But the guy was lucky enough to be  treated by Sir Harold Gillies in 1917, the first man to use skin grafts from undamaged areas on the body, also known as “The Father of Plastic surgery.”