Volume 217 Issue 8, 24 October 2014
FIRST WORLD WAR SERIES: PATIENTS AT QUEENS HOSPITAL IN SIDCUP, 19171921
The cover images in volume 217 of the Journal have been commissioned to commemorate the centenary of the start of the Great War. Dentistry and oral surgery came to the fore in World War I and significant advances in dental treatment and oral surgery were made in order to cope with horrendous facial injuries and the sheer volume of troops. The cover of this particular issue is an illustration of a photograph taken from a personal album compiled by Sister Mary Agar who worked in the Canadian Ward at the Queens Hospital in Sidcup during the Great War. The patients, dressed in their hospital uniforms, are shown in various stages of their reconstructive procedures.
Illustration by Philip Bannister based on an image which is part of the Antony Wallace Archive of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), housed at the Hunterian Museum. Visits by appointment only, please contact secretariat@bapras.org.uk.
Web: philip-bannister.co.uk
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