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PLASTIC SURGERY.
Of some 10,000 men of the Bri
tish forces who sustained disfiguring
facial wounds in the war, and were
sent for treatment to the Queen's Hos
pital at Sidcup, only 10 or 15 men are
regarded as incurably disfigured. The
Ministry of Pensions is contemplating
the purchase of a country house as a
home for these men. This, wonder-
ful number of cures is due largely to
the skill of Major H. D. Gillies,
R.A.M.C. chief plastic surgeon at Sid
cup. He has grown for the disfigur
ed new lips, chins, and cheeks, mended
and replaced shattered jaws, and even
replaced faces that had been literally
burned away by terrible explosions.
He has built jaws with bits of hone
from the leg. cheeks with fatty tissue
covered with strips of skin taken from
the body, and noses with cartilage from
the ribs. Discussing the work recent
ly, Major Gillies paid a high tribute
to the skill of his fellow surgeons at
Sidcup. Their success in making
good the wreckage of the war is prac
tically complete, he said. "The
maimed men are to be found sitting
in omnibuses and trains, working in
shop and office, on the land, or back
in the navy, and army again. You
would not have an inkling of what
had happened to them. A petty officer
in the navy had his face burned off at
the battle of Jutland. He has had a
new face built, is back in the navy
and recently passed his gunnery tests.
There have been other cases as re
markable who arc back "in civil life,
again.
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