PLASTIC SURGERY.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXII, Issue 31, 18 February 1935, Page 1

PLASTIC SURGERY.

Sii? HfiROLD GILLIES. HIS LATEST TRIUMPH. LONDON, January 19. A marvel of modem surgery, described by counsel as the “finest piece of work” that Sir Harold Gillies, tile plastic surgeon, had ever done, was described to Mr Justice Humphrey, at Bucks Assizes. Cynthia Wilson a 12-year-old girl, was so terribly injured about the face that doctors and nurses prayed that -he might die. She is now of normal appearance. Mr A. Ward (for the girl), said that her head was battered, her face broken open, and her jaws broken ■.hen a motor car collided with her bicycle lasi April. “It is one of the finest pieces of work, I think, that Sir Harold Gillies lias ever done,” added counsel. “He has built up this child’s face and the dentist has built up the mouth. It has been very expensive treatment, and the father has incurred or must incur altogether a sum of £650.” The defendants were Messrs- W. Lamb and Co., of Slough. A settlement of £IOOO and taxed costs was approved by the Judge. WORK FOR EX-SERVICEMEN. Sir Harold Gillies, formerly of New Zealand, was knighted in 1930 in recognition of his wonderful work for disfigured ex-servicemen. The Peterborough “Daily Telegraph” remarks: —“The tribute paid in the course of a lawsuit to the work of Sir Harold Gillies, the famous plastic surgeon, will not surprise any who have been his patients. The achievements of the young New Zealand doctor during the war in supplying incredibly mutilated soldiers with new limbs and faces were something more than remarkable. His collection of casts of facial war wounds would be a grim one if he did not also show one photographs of the same faces after they had been successfully treated.” Sir Harold is tall and genial, and has a highly developed gift of invention. This shows itself not only in the surgery but on the golf course. An old golfing “Bine,” he at one time indulged in the most bizarre of tees. One was a piece of rubber tubing nine inches high: another was a ginger beer bottle. Ultimately, however, he returned to a more, conventional type of tee on the representations of his friends.

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