I highlight this because I sincerely believe that the level of plastic surgery achieved during this first experiment will be looked at in awe if Obama has his way.
These are the dramatic images of the first person to undergo plastic surgery - a naval officer who was horrifically wounded during the First World War.
They have been released in a bid to track down the family of the man, Walter Yeo, who suffered terrible facial injuries during the naval Battle of Jutland.
The photographs show his face before, during and after the revolutionary medical procedure was carried out.
Warrant Officer Yeo's injuries, while manning the guns aboard HMS Warspite in 1916, included the loss of upper and lower eyelids.
In 1917 the gunnery warrant officer was treated by Sir Harold Gillies, regarded as the father of plastic surgery because he was the first surgeon to use skin grafts from undamaged areas on the body.
These are photographs of Yeo before during and after the skin graft.
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