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Greetings & Meetings. Wife Agnes, 37, gave English lessons to the Hiroshima Maidens before they took off for the U.S. for plastic surgery (TIME, Oct. 24, 1955 et seq.), last year taught a course in nutrition that featured 30-yen (10?) meals and American recipes for Japanese dishes. Meanwhile, in between a grueling daily round of meetings, greetings, speeches and luncheons, Fazl has found time to lecture at the university, spends two hours each week giving English lessons to a group of political-science students. He took time off on his 1955 home leave to persuade U.S. colleges and universities...
...Many a plastic surgeon thumbing through a handsome, two-volume medical work last week was startled to find, under the unscientific heading, "Oops!", this homely advice: "Once a graft has been cut, it should be folded, wrapped in a damp gauze and put in a safe place until time for its application. Too often in its trip around the theatre it gets thrown in the wastebucket or dropped on the floor. Pick it up. wash it and get on with the job. It happens in the best of clinics!" And, as the kickoff to a chapter entitled "Flap Happy," there...
Such salty, down-to-earth treatment of an esoteric surgical specialty could have come only from New Zealand-born Sir Harold Delf Gillies, 74, onetime champion golfer, master of the fly rod, amateur painter and undisputed father of modern plastic surgery in Britain. As co-author of The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery (Little, Brown; $35), he enlisted the University of Miami's David Ralph Millard Jr., 37, a kindred spirit and former pupil. Utterly different from anything else in the field, their work is neither a set text nor a formal reference book, but a remarkable grafting...
...Gillies, the plastic surgeon is well advised to aim short of perfection. "It is important to remember when remaking the nose for a one-eyed lad not to build the bridge so high that he cannot see the motor bus coming from the blind side." This reminds him of the one-eyed Count of Montefeltro (1422-82), who deliberately had part of his nasal bridge removed: "Thus his one good eye peeking through the notch in his nose discouraged friends sitting on his blind side from trying to poison...
Ears, Eyebrows. Much plastic surgery involves correcting abnormalities about the face. A child may be born with a malformed ear, or no ear. Surgeon Gillies sometimes uses beef cartilage as the base for sculpturing a new ear with flaps of the child's skin, but he prefers to get cartilage from the mother's ear. This can be done without disfiguring her, and as Gillies notes tartly, she can wear her hair low to cover the scar-which her son cannot. Such grafts have lasted 15 years. In one remarkable case, Gillies used part of a woman...