Tag: facial disfigurement
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Book review: The Facemaker: One Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden Facsimile of a wax teaching model made by Sergeant Thomas H. Kelsey for the New Zealand Medical Corps facial and jaw injury unit, c. 1917. British National Army Museum Copyright, released under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. “A chirurgien should have…the harte of a lyin…the eyes of a hawke…[and] the hands…
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The psychological impact of facial injury in the First World War: outcomes from the Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup
Andrew Bamji Rye, East Sussex, UK Figure 1. Aerial view of the Queen’s Hospital, c.1920. The operating theatres are in the horseshoe to the left centre of the photograph. Figure 2. The Plastic Theatre. Modern warfare, and in particular the use of artillery employed against entrenched troops in the First World War, resulted…