PLASTIC SURGERY
Our Own Correapondent.)
» i Australian Comes to N.Z. for Treatinent
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WELLINGTON, This Day. « The fact that an Australian girl has teen sent to New Zealand for treatment after a bad motor-accident on the ground that the Dcminion has oue of Ihe best plastio surgeons in the world has just been revealed here by an Australian visitor. The girl is now in hospi.tal after having undergone some preliminary operations by Dr. H. P. Piekerill. Sho was the victim of a bad motor smash in Sydney some weeks ago when the car in which she was travelling collided wiih a stationary automobile. She suffered severe facial injuries. including a broken nose, and was advised to come to New Zealand and place herself in Dr. Piekerill 's hands. Her nose has now been treated and sho has undergone a skin graft, skin having been talcen from a liinb and placed on the injured knee. • This revelation has been made by a | woman visitor from Sydney, Mrs E. s Walters, who is a friend of the pat'iont | and is now visiting her daughter, the i wife of a professor on the staff of ■ Yictoria University College.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 7
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195PLASTIC SURGERY Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 7
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