Beginning of Plastic Surgery:
1917 marked the beginning of an all out world war. Many people died and family's were torn apart and loved ones were lost. With this horrible war also came great medical discoveries. New medicines were invented and more innovative medical tools were being seen. One of the most important and ground breaking medical discoveries because of World War one was plastic surgery. Dr. Harold Gillies is one of the most famous doctors to have worked on and reconstruct wounded soldiers at the time of World War One. With the War not looking like it will be coming to an end soon Dr. Harold Gillies opened the Queen Mary's Hospital in London, England. The hospital had 1,000 hospital beds which would help with all the wounded soldiers coming off of the front lines of the war. When soldiers came off the battle ground with face injuries they went straight to Dr. Harold Gillies where he then started his ground breaking plastic surgery procedures. When the doctor got his patients he focused on aesthetics and to focus on making the patient look like how he did before the incident. Over 11,000 operations were performed on about 5,000 men. About 2,000 of those men that were operated on came from the battle of the Somme which was one of the biggest and bloodiest battles fought during the entire war. To perform these operations Dr. Harold Gillies used many different materials to reconstruct parts of the face. When soldiers needed their jaws to be reconstructed Dr. Harold Gillies would use different types of metals to act as the lost muscles or ligaments. He also used different metals to make teeth also. By the end of World War 1 thousands of patients have been worked on by method of plastic surgery and because of this, Plastic surgery has come a long way and made a positive impacts on peoples lives.
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Gillies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_surgery
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9396435/Pioneering-plastic-surgery-records-from-First-World-War-published.html
1917 marked the beginning of an all out world war. Many people died and family's were torn apart and loved ones were lost. With this horrible war also came great medical discoveries. New medicines were invented and more innovative medical tools were being seen. One of the most important and ground breaking medical discoveries because of World War one was plastic surgery. Dr. Harold Gillies is one of the most famous doctors to have worked on and reconstruct wounded soldiers at the time of World War One. With the War not looking like it will be coming to an end soon Dr. Harold Gillies opened the Queen Mary's Hospital in London, England. The hospital had 1,000 hospital beds which would help with all the wounded soldiers coming off of the front lines of the war. When soldiers came off the battle ground with face injuries they went straight to Dr. Harold Gillies where he then started his ground breaking plastic surgery procedures. When the doctor got his patients he focused on aesthetics and to focus on making the patient look like how he did before the incident. Over 11,000 operations were performed on about 5,000 men. About 2,000 of those men that were operated on came from the battle of the Somme which was one of the biggest and bloodiest battles fought during the entire war. To perform these operations Dr. Harold Gillies used many different materials to reconstruct parts of the face. When soldiers needed their jaws to be reconstructed Dr. Harold Gillies would use different types of metals to act as the lost muscles or ligaments. He also used different metals to make teeth also. By the end of World War 1 thousands of patients have been worked on by method of plastic surgery and because of this, Plastic surgery has come a long way and made a positive impacts on peoples lives.
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Gillies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_surgery
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9396435/Pioneering-plastic-surgery-records-from-First-World-War-published.html
This is a picture of Dr. Harold Gillies. Without World War One and the ground breaking experiments he made Plastic Surgery would not be at such an advanced level that it is now in the present day. He died on September 10, 1960 but never to be forgotten