EAR TRANSFERRED
GRAFTED ON BOY AGED SEVEN. HIS GRANDMOTHER’S SACRIFICE. OPERATION BY NEW ZEALANDER (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, December 27. Sir Harold Gillies, the New Zealander, on becoming honorary plastic surgeon at the North Staffordshire infirmary, interested himself in the case of a seven-year-old boy, Robert Price, who suffered from a seriously deformed ear since his birth. Sir Harold suggested that he would remedy it if anyone would be willing to sacrifice an ear. * Robert Price’s grandmother, aged 65, immediately volunteered and the transference was carried out successfully.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 65, 28 December 1935, Page 5
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