“GUINEA PIG” CLUB
(Received June 27, 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 26.
Airmen whose faces are badly disfigured from burns have formed their own “Guinea Pig” Club. The members will meet for au annual dinner at the QueenVictoria Hospital, East Grinstead. The hospital staff is headed by the New Zealander, Sir Harold Gillies, who is acknowledged as Britain’s most famous plastic surgeon, and the New Zealander, Dr. A. 11. Meindoe, who is consultant in plastic surgery to the R.A.F. A hospital official said that the hospital had received all British, Canadian, New Zealand, Australian and Allied airmen who were badly .burned, and also civilian air raid casualties with severe facial injuries. Dr. Meindoe bad performed miracles, giving disfigured people new noses, chins and eyelids. More than 1000 patients passed through his hands and those of his assistants during the war in Europe.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 232, 28 June 1945, Page 7
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