FEAT OF PLASTIC SURGERY

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1934, Page 7

FEAT OF PLASTIC SURGERY

NEW ZEALAND BURNS VICTIM.

OPERATIONS IN LONDON. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Since his arrival in England recently Fiying-Officer L. F. P. Taylor, Wellington, has undergone the first of a series of eight or ten plastic operations to his face. Captain Taylor, a member of the New Zealand Territorial Air Force and the Wellington Aero Club, was very seriously burned in September, 1932, when an aeroplane in which he and Mr. A. L. De Tourettes were travelling crashed at Johnsonville. After many months in hospital Captain 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, London, who is himself a New Zealander. Although new skin was grafted on to Captain Taylor before he left the Dominion his face was still scarred and his eyelids were half closed. The surgeon has since opened the lids of the eyes and found that the sight is quite good. Various operations will be performed during the next six months, and it is expected Captain Taylor will have his features entirely restored.