With no textbooks or antibiotics, this WWI surgeon pioneered facial reconstruction kedm.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kedm.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the story Dr. Harold Gillies, a military surgeon who spent WWI reconstructing the faces of soldiers and sailors who'd suffered horrific facial injuries.
Humbert was the most beautiful boy in the town.He had blue eyes and golden curls.He was very beautiful, but he was nasty.He liked putting rats in the beds of his sisters.The little girls cried.One day, Rose, his sister, put a crocodile in his bed.“AI” yelled Humbert, “I’m afraid there’s a crocodile in my bed!”But Humbert was so beautiful the crocodile gave him an agreeable smile. Humbert and the crocodile had become friends.The child was even nastier than he was before because he could go everywhere with the crocodile. Leonora CarringtonPAINTED IN THE 1950S on the walls of her sons’ bedroom and