PLASTIC SURGERY CLINIC.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18641, 23 February 1924, Page 7 (Supplement)

PLASTIC SURGERY CLINIC.

H* JfJ NATIONAL institute. -0 •- j With the object of replacing the fe'l-i ''quack" and the'high-fee beauty expert, i an international clinic for plastic surgery >fy< has been established in London. It, is •ji/\ housed temporarily in St. Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill, until funds are available *|V ' tc add a special wing to that institu- %•, t : on for plastic surgery. Major K. 1). ■ Gillies, well known for his war work in V<i this field, is head of the new institution, If'- „ ; and his associate is Mr. •T. Pomfret KilpS 1 ; ner. There are also two American memiters, and one, Professor Lemaitre, repre- ► senting France. , : JThe general purpose of the clinic is to preserve, improve, and teach the know--sledge of facial improvement, . which was developed so greatly during the war. MfivvSurgeons of unquestionable standing only jfi: . will be received as students, and dentists, Sfpvi. artists and sculptors will co-operate to gp make plastic surgery a separate and dis- ■ tinct branch of surgical work The clinic |Ip will be open to all classes, and a scale of pt| I fees proportionate to the Means of the K". applicants will be adopted. Lectures will be given and conferences ■ held in different countries. All possible mm ir,eans will /be. used to discourage quacks i'p.% ; who attempt operations, especially the in-. jection of paraffin to restore or improve V mopes. No profits will be made by the clinic, which will exclude all IVy^ccJcial- , ; ibts." t. Wonderful things have already been accomplished l-y plastic surgery. It has / «placed : .ned noses by new ones' made - teaj. the patient's own flesh and skin, %''grova" ne v ears, grafted new bone into , 'flfcfeid —giving the patient his ' plinth in a " false jaw—and grafted ' eyelids and eyebrows., .