Home Collections The Visits The Visits The “The British Microsurgical Travellers Club” made trips to six units in five countries. Surgeons and Units Visited Ljubljana- Marco Godina. Hamburg - Dieter Buck Gramco Munich - Edgar Biemer Innsbruck - Hans Anderl Beijing & Hong Kong - Chen Chung Wey and surgeons at Princes Margaret Hospital HK Each host organised a programme of lectures and operative demonstrations in theatre. They learnt more about microsurgical free tissue transfer for soft tissue cover of open lower limb fractures from Marco Godina in Lubijana. Edgar Biemer in Munich was an early pioneer in finger and limb replantation, and Hans Anderl in Innsbruck had experience with cross facial nerve transfer for the treatment of facial nerve palsy. Munich 1978. The BMTC with their German colleagues. Edgar Biemer is in the white coat, 7th from left. On the visit to Munich, the visitors even made a side trip to Schaffhausen near Lake Constance (Bodensee) home to the instrument works of Messers Springler and Tritt. “S&T” were pioneers in the development of both microsurgical instruments and sutures, thereby making microsurgery a routinely practical technique. Image to right of Bill Reid, Martyn Webster, and Edgar Biemer Share Back to the Museum Collection Highlights 1939 Ear reconstruction This is a pencil and ink illustration by Mollie Lentaigne of a procedure to reconstruct a... Learn More 1939 Hand scar revision and Split Skin Graft This is a pencil and ink illustration by Mollie Lentaigne of a procedure undertaken by Archibald... Learn More 1939 Drum Dermatome Skin Graft Harvest This is a pencil, ink and watercolour illustration by Mollie Lentaigne of a procedure undertaken at... Learn More 1939 Bone Graft This is a pencil, ink and watercolour illustration by Mollie Lentaigne of a procedure undertaken at... Learn More 1850 Books and Further Reading BAPRAS Book Library BAPRAS has an extensive library of books available for research. The library is accessible... Learn More 1939 Gillies' Drum Dermatome BAPRAS/354 Date 1939 What Is This Instrument? BAPRAS/354 Gilies own... Learn More 1979 The Origins of BAAPS It is little recognised today that the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons originated... Learn More 1900 20th Century British Aesthetic Surgery The origins of aesthetic or cosmetic surgery in Britain lie within the overall evolution of... Learn More