PLASTIC SURGERY.
NEW ZEALANDER'S FEAT. SUFFERER MADE HANDSOME. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Jan. 20. "The age of miracles is not past," said a member of the Wandsworth Board of Guardians in referring to the latest achievement of the noted expert in plastic surgery, Dr. Harold 13. Gillies, formerly of New Zealand. The reference was to the restoration by the surgeon of the face of an inmate of a local hospital, whose nose, eyelid and cheek wore blown off in the war. The speaker said the patient was now more handsome than any member of tile board. Dr. Harold Deif Gillies, F.R.C.S., is" chief plastic surgeon at the Queen's Hospital, Kent, England. Born in Dtinedin in 1882 he is a son of Mr. Robert Gillies, who represented Bruce in the House of Representatives. 1384-5. Dr. Gillies was educated at Wanganu! College and at Cambridge University where ne secured his rowing blue in 1*904. He next went to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and became a pioneer of plastic surgery. He was • a - major. in ilk- Royal Army Medical Corps dating the war and was made a CB..E: in 1320.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19542, 22 January 1927, Page 9
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