PLASTIC SURGERY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1939, Page 7

PLASTIC SURGERY

-♦ £S ORGANISING OF WAR SERVICE ;J (By Air Mail, from "The Post's" Londo* l Representative.) LONDON, October 20. Sir Harold D. Gillies, the eminent plastic surgeon, has, it is announced,' \ become a consultant adviser to the Ministry of Health. With Mr. Kelsey Fry, the dental surgeon, he has been organising hospital * services to deal with injuries to the jaw and face in air-raid casualties, and between them they have recruited the best brains in their professions; - :^ The plastic surgeons Mr. A. H. Mclndoe (formerly of Dunedin), Mr. A. > Rainsford Mowlem, and Mr. T. P. Kil- ' ■ ncr have joined Sir Harold. Mr. Fry ■ has secured Professor Stobie, Mr. -'■ Bowdler Henry, Mr. Dudley Buxton, }m I and Dr. E. W. Fish. Besides their main hospital in the Home Counties, they ,H have equipped three centres in London ■ and. five in provincial cities. , ,H While waiting for the offensive to begin on the home front they have> mH made arrangements with the War /,■ Office to trea,t military casualties. *« Later, if necessary, ihey will expand <w their organisation to take-in all' Army 'H casualties. 'H The "Manchester Guardian" refers to ~"■ Sir Harold Gillies's patience being' as ■ remarkable as his skill, and relates the jH story of the son of a Fleet Street jour- '■ nalist. When only 18 months old the? '■ child pitched over the nursery fire* l ■ guard on to the grate, the bars ot ■ which he clutched. All his fingers '■ were terribly burned, and those of one V H hand were tightly curled. Sir Harold ,■ grafted skin from the child's thighs-on. ■ to the hand, and in the course of five ,' ■ years performed three operations. The '■ other day the boy, now nine years old, Al was head of his class in a gymnasium' T V|H competition. He plays cricket, catches , §■ the ball well, and is good- on.<thfL trapeze, • v ,^|IH