PLASTIC SURGERY

Evening Star, Issue 21631, 29 January 1934, Page 3

PLASTIC SURGERY

EMINENT SPECIALIST OPERATES ON AVIATOR [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 28. Since his arrival in England recently Flying-officer L. F. P. Taylor, of Wellington, has undergone the first of a series of eight or ten plastic operations to his face. Flying-officer Taylor, who was a member of the New Zealand territorial air force and the Wellington Aero Club, was very badly burned in September, 1932, when the aeroplane in which he and Mr A. L. de Tourettes were travelling crashed at Johnsonville. After many months in hospital Flying-officer Taylor was able to return to his home, and towards the end of last year he left for England to become a patient of one of the most eminent specialists in plastic surgery in the world, Sir Harold Gillies, of London, who is himself a New Zealander. Although now skin was grafted on to Flying-officer Taylor before he left the dominion his face was still scarred and his eyelids were half closed. Sir Harold Gillies has since opened the lids of the eyes and found that the sight is quite good. Various operations will bo performed during the next six months, and it is anticipated that Fly-ing-officer Taylor will have his features entirely restored.