I think a young man in Boston was the first personto have a severed hand reattached. This was decades ago. Maybe a bou by the name of Everette knowls.

The first was Clint Hallam when he lost his hand in circular-saw accident at Rolleston prison in 1984 but the surgery was unsuccessful but a surgery team led by Australian Earl Owen and Frenchman Jean-Michel Dubernard successfully transplanted a new hand on 23 September 1998 in a 13-hour long operation in Lyon, France.

In the past 200 years, successful replantation of amputated digits has gradually moved from fantasy to reality. William Balfour performed the first successful fingertip reattachment in 1814; Thomas Hunter is credited with the first thumb replantation performed in the following year.

Little progress was made until the pioneering work of William Steward Halstead and Alexis Carrel, who performed replantation experiments with dog limbs in the 1880s. Dr Carrel won the Nobel Prize in 1912 for his work on vascular anastomoses and for pioneering renal transplantation.

In 1962, Ronald A Malt performed the first successful replantation of an entire limb, in a 12-year-old boy whose arm had been severed in a train accident. With the development of the operating microscope by Julius Jacobson and Ernesto Suarez in the early 1960s, replantation became easier, and its use began to spread throughout the Western world.

With the advent of microvascular reanastomosis, digit replantation became tenable. In 1965, Shigeo Kmatsu and Susumu Tamai were the first to perform such a procedure. Modern replantation now is available in most large hospitals.