sksvlad
Well-Known Member
I know, sounds strange, let me tell you the whole story.
I was at my parents listening to my father reminiscing about his life before WWII. He was talking about my grandfather who was a close personal friend of A.A.Vishnevsky whose father was a famous surgeon with a God like reputation in the Soviet medical society. So I looked up A.A. Vishnevsky Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Alexandrovich_Vishnevsky, which stated that "he elaborated the new methods for treating gunshot wounds treatment on the Eastern Front of World War II, such as using leeches to remove shrapnel".
Now, I have a bit of medical training myself, but I can't come up with any plausible use of leeches to remove shrapnel. Anyone cares to help me?
I was at my parents listening to my father reminiscing about his life before WWII. He was talking about my grandfather who was a close personal friend of A.A.Vishnevsky whose father was a famous surgeon with a God like reputation in the Soviet medical society. So I looked up A.A. Vishnevsky Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Alexandrovich_Vishnevsky, which stated that "he elaborated the new methods for treating gunshot wounds treatment on the Eastern Front of World War II, such as using leeches to remove shrapnel".
Now, I have a bit of medical training myself, but I can't come up with any plausible use of leeches to remove shrapnel. Anyone cares to help me?