The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Medical Plastic Surgery
Faces from the Front. Harold Gillies, The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery
by Andrew Bamji
ISBN
9781911512660
Purchase Price
£29.95 (new)
Date Purchased
May 3, 2018
Publisher
Helion & Company (2017, Solihull, West Midlands)
Notes
This book examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War. Gillies was an ambitious young surgeon who developed a new branch of surgery -plastic surgery of the face. In January 1916 he set up a dedicated ward at the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot. Following the Battle of the Somme, a new hospital was established at Sidcup to deal with the treatment of facial injuries. Between 1917 and the mid Twenties it treated over 5,000 patients from all of the Allied armies; and Gillies built up a similarly composed team of surgeons and specialist staff.
9781911512660
Purchase Price
£29.95 (new)
Date Purchased
May 3, 2018
Publisher
Helion & Company (2017, Solihull, West Midlands)
Notes
This book examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War. Gillies was an ambitious young surgeon who developed a new branch of surgery -plastic surgery of the face. In January 1916 he set up a dedicated ward at the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot. Following the Battle of the Somme, a new hospital was established at Sidcup to deal with the treatment of facial injuries. Between 1917 and the mid Twenties it treated over 5,000 patients from all of the Allied armies; and Gillies built up a similarly composed team of surgeons and specialist staff.