Moody's maimed body parts and the limitations of wizarding medicine

[jrober4211]

No: HPFGUIDX 34830

Sorry, I am behind on my postings and went back and reread some of 
the questions regarding why Moody has a wooden leg and the magic eye, 
and some of the questions regarding wizarding medicine. 

I feel that Moody could not have his leg regenerated because 
obviously the whole thing got blown off at some point. Skele-grow 
only works on bone, to my knowledge , that's why he could not have 
his leg grown back as skin and all were missing. This would also 
explain the eye as it is also soft tissue. Evidently wizards do not 
have a remedy for soft tissue replacement, so far, in the books. But 
I do think its cool that they have artificial eyes that have x-ray 
vision as Moody can see through Harry's robe and tell that he has on 
the funny socks that Dobby gave him. Now what else can Moody/Crouch 
Jr. see with that x-ray eye? Too bad the artificial leg is just 
wooden, there was alot JKR could have done with a magic leg 
prosthesis......

AS for why T riddle's mom died in childbirth, I have already listed 
in a previous post all the childbirth emergencies that can occur 
within seconds that can kill either the mother or child and why the 
accio charm would not be a solution to all childbirth emergencies. I 
also want to add that at the time of T Riddle's birth, there was no 
such thing as fetal monitoring that might alert you to the fact that 
something is wrong during the labor process. At that point in 
history,everyone gave birth in the home. So unless the Midwitch had a 
magic eye, assuming T Riddle's mom had a Midwitch, no one would be 
able to tell there was a problem with the fetus or mother until it 
was too late.  

As for Crouch Jr.'s mother and her fatal disease, assuming it was 
cancer, as someone previously mentioned. I went back to my text books 
to do a little reading on the BIG C. Cancer is a generalized term for 
normal cell growth gone awry, due to various causes. There are 
numerous variations of catalystic reasons related to the immune 
system ( genetic predisposition), and environmental insults that 
trigger this to happen ( this is a very simplistic explanation). 
Since cancer cells are more or less mutations of normal cells, it 
would be difficult to target the specific C cells and irradicate them 
with magic without damaging normal tissue.This is true with 
conventional muggle treatments as well, which is why people sometimes 
do not survive the treatments, chemo and radiation, and cancer 
victims sometimes opt for no treatment, as the treatment for possible 
prolongation of life is worse than the symptoms of the disease when 
death is inevitable anyway.  

Cosmetic surgery- Teeth are more or less bone. This would explain why 
Hermione could have her teeth altered when Malfoy inadvertently 
turned them into gopher teeth. The girl who tried to hex off her acne 
and ended up taking her nose with it, obviously spells like that do 
not work well on soft tissue ( the nose is just skin and cartilage, 
not bone). I can't explain why some wizards would opt to keep 
discolored teeth, other than perhaps physical appearance is not 
important to them. Dudley's tongue- here is where an inconsistency 
lies with my soft tissue theory. Unless the twins have inadvertently 
come up with something that could be used in wizarding medicine and 
are unaware of its potential use for soft tissue regeneration. 

Jo Ellen