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6 unusual facts about Harold Gillies


Doctor Scroggy's War

It is centred on the fictional soldier Jack Twigg and his involvement with Harold Gillies.

Henry Ralph Lumley

The surgical team, led by Harold Gillies, decided to reconstruct Henry's face using a huge skin graft from his chest.

Hippolyte Morestin

Morestin greatly influenced the British-New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies, who met him on leave in Paris during the First World War.

Ivan Magill

Working with plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, he was responsible for the development of numerous items of anaesthetic equipment but most particularly the single-tube technique of endotracheal anaesthesia.

Murari Mohan Mukherjee

He underwent Plastic surgical training in England under Sir Harold Gillies and Thomas Pomfret Kilner.

Waikato Hospital

Plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe trained as a house surgeon at Waikato hospital prior to working in the US and UK with his cousin Harold Gillies.



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