First Toe to Thumb transfer in the West by John Cobbett 1968. Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead (video copyright QVH)

Video of the first toe to thumb transfer to reconstruct a missing thumb in a woodcutter, performed in the West in 1968 by John Cobbett in East Grinstead. The video is from the QVH archives and has been released to mark John Cobbett's great contribution to microsurgical reconstruction.