BEAUTY SURGERY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22981, 8 March 1938, Page 16

BEAUTY SURGERY

QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED ATTACK BY SIR H. GILLIES [f:hom our own correspondent ] LONDON, Feb. 19 Some remarkable examples of cases he hud treated, including the remodelling ot! ears ancl noses, treating or harelip and similar disfigurements, were given by Sir Harold Gillies, the famous New Zealand plastic surgeon, in a lecture to tho Berlin Medical Society in Berlin. One girl whose nose had been partly cut oft' in a motor-car accident arrived at his surgery ill London with a S'ece of her nose in a packet. Sir arold grafted the piece into place so that, much to his astonishment, the girl was able to return to work within a few hours with her appearance restored almost to normal. Sir Harold launched an attack on "many poorly qualified doctors" who set up as "cosmetic surgeons" although they were without adequate surgical experience. Previous plastic surgical training, he maintained, should be made compulsory before a doctor was permitted to practise "beauty surgery." Only the introduction of, Sir Harold's speech was given by him personally. He does not speak German sufficiently fluently to deal with the technical details given in the lecture, ao the speech was reeordecj on a blind man's "talking book," by a German-speaking ■urgeon.'.- .