'How did Harold Gillies transform plastic surgery? An interview with the actor Daniel Gillies and his father Doctor John Gillies, on their ancestor’s complicated legacy.' 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0lls1v1 #ESPRAS #StrongerTogether #HaroldGillies #PlasticSurgery #ReconstructiveSurgery

🏥 Sir #HaroldGillies, New Zealand 'father of modern #plasticsurgery' who pioneered skin graft techniques on injured soldiers in WWI, #DOTD 10 September 1960.

"Don't worry, Sonny, you'll be alright and have as good as face as most of us before we're finished with you."

🏥 #HaroldGillies, New Zealand father of modern plastic surgery who pioneered skin graft techniques on injured soldiers in WWI, was #BOTD 17 June 1882

No such publication was available in England, although #HaroldGillies did try, with the support of #HenryTonks to publish a medical journal on the treatment of #maxillofacialtrauma. Gillies published Plastic Surgery of the Face in 1925, an essential textbook for plastic surgeons for many years.

Although perhaps not as effective as a #plasticsurgeon as #HaroldGillies in England, #AlbericPont had a similar attitude to the plight of his patients, who were often extremely self-conscious of their appearance. Like Gillies, he employed some of these men at his home.