WONDERFUL SURGERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

WONDERFUL SURGERY.

A SOLDIER'S GRATITUDE.

"ONE OF NATURE'S GENTLEMEN." The last member of the Canadian army, Major J- Gillies, recently returned to Canada, cared of a terrible wound after fourteen operations spread over more than ten years. The record of this cure ba3 brought to an English journal a letter from another soldier tiroilsrly cured, his object being to pay a jtribcte to the wonderful surgery by which these cures were effected. This correspondent. R. Evans, D.C.M. —iate sergeant Ist Herts Regiment"—says he believes the jaw of Major J. Gillies was restored chifly by operations performed bv his namesake, Major H- D. Gillies. "H& expresses admiration and gratitude for his own cure in this way: " I had ray top jaw shot away in 1916, Bnd came under Major H. D. Gillies in a military hospital. A deep and lasting impression was made on me by the courtesy and kindness with which he treated us all as well as by bis skill. He even dressed my wounds himself after an operation, and visited me at night to see if I was comfortable, though he was up his his eyes in work. ' " To-day, instead of being hideously deformed, my features are almost normal, and lam happily married. I owe much of my happiness to the marvellous surgery of Major Gillies. Praiso for sucn work as his is long overdue. I have often felt that the rewards and praise seem to go astray. Ordinary soldiers receive as much of his care as the officers. He was one of Nature's gentlemen. Much of the noblest work in the world will always be done in quietude and silence unknown to the multitude, and those who do it are content that it_ Bhall be so. Of true Virtue it has been rightly said, " No lover of glory is she."