Aberdeen Typhoid Epidemic
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SIR,-May I add a postscript to the delightful and fully deserved eulogy of the late Sir Harold Gillies by your correspondent Mr. Patrick Clarkson (10 September, p. 641). I was present in Boulogne one day in the autumn of 1915 with a Captain Harry Grey, a Canadian E.N.T. surgeon, when the meeting I am about to describe took place. He and I, as officers of the same motor ambulance unit near Poperinghe, had often discussed the horrors of facial wounds; and he, Harry Grey, was insistent that these and other injuries should be the aim of a special brand of surgery, and that it should be developed by the E.N.T. surgeons. Gillies, it will be remembered, was up to the outbreak of the first world war specializing in the E.N.T. field. Walking that day along the front at Boulogne I saw a curious-looking stooping figure creeping rather than walking towards us, dressed in a curious uniform that was neither Army nor Navy. "Giles" it was. He was even more depressed than he looked; full to overflowing with complaints. Here he was at the beautifully equipped and staffed Red Cross hospital donated by the Duchess of Westminster at nearby Wimereux-they were rotting away, no worthwhile cases ever being sent to them-victims of the R.A.M.C. jealousy, no real officer status, and so orn and on. Here then was Harry Grey's hungry soil, ready to lap up and respond to his eloquent and enthusiastic advocacy of specialization in facial surgery. Some months later I visited my old friend "Giles," now happily and actively installed at the Cambridge Hospital in Aldershot. I think this chance meeting between the New Zealander and the Canadian must have been the spark that set alight the genius of this unique character.-I am, etc.,
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تاریخ انتشار 2007