University Health Network - Academy of Medicine Collection
Category
Archival
Military Medicine
Nursing
Commemorative and Communication Artifacts
Classification
Archival, Photograph
Archival, Military
Military Medicine
Nursing
Commemorative and Communication Artifacts
Accession Number
002050432
Description
Promotional photograph for military nursing during World War II depicting five medical officer's in military uniform watching a doctor viewing an x-ray by holding it up to the light in front of an open dooor; two nursing sisters in military uniform are watching with one taking notes; names written …
Promotional photograph for military nursing during World War II depicting five medical officer's in military uniform watching a doctor viewing an x-ray by holding it up to the light in front of an open dooor; two nursing sisters in military uniform are watching with one taking notes; names written on reverse identify the medical personnel.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Acquired from the Academy of Medicine; originally from the Estate of Dr. Stuart Gordon. Belongs with other loose photographs from Dr. Gordon's photograph album for 'Canadian Medical Corps at Surgical Station in France, World War II Surgical Ward Photographs' 002.050.423.
On reverse: "(left to right) Dug Cannell // Tim Wasbrough // Bill White // Rod Gordon // Capt. Stuart Gordon // Fred Kergin // OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH // CANADIAN MILITARY HEADQUARTERS // FOR GENERAL RELEASE // PHOTO BY AUDRAIN"
This photo is from #1 Plastic & Jaw Surgery Unit Rooksdown House Basingstoke, Hampshire England. Perhaps the most significant improvements in the history of plastic surgery occurred in the last century, where several plastic surgery techniques were introduced during the world wars. Pioneering skin grafting techniques such as the ‘tubed pedicled graft’, were developed during World War I and refined by leading plastic surgeons Archibald McIndoe and Harold Gilles who used the techniques to treat severe facial burns.
These staged procedures differed from earlier plastic surgery because they relied on the growth and development of a blood supply from the recipient bed into the grafted tissue over many weeks or months.
Dr. Gordon graduated from the University of Toronto in 1926. After serving in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in World War II, he returned to Toronto to become the Chief of Plastic Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital and the first head of the University of Toronto training program in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.