Philibuster

Ok this is the grossest thing I have seen today all week. It’s really horrible to think about how some of the medical problems where handled back in the day. Take this poor guy. He lost his nose and parts of his face in order to fix him up he had to give up a finger as well. They sewed his middle finger on the gapping hole that used to be his nose and left it for a few weeks or whatever. Then when the skin had all fused together and turned into a gross looking blob they snipped the finger off. Leaving it to hang off his face.

Here’s the final result.

Aside from the obvious joke about walking around flipping off the entire world, which would be totally understandable given this guy’s situation, I think this is a horrible idea. I’d rather have a wooden nose with a strap. Apparently this type of “fix” was used a lot in world war 1 and that there will be more photos uploaded to the flickr account that holds this travesty.