Skin Grafts and Burns


Carl Thiersch, 1822 - 1895.
Early pioneer in free skin grafting.

Leopold Louis Xavier Edouard Ollier, 1829 - 1868.
Early pioneer of free skin grafting.

Beverly Douglas, 1891 - 1975.
Best known for the Beverly Douglas procedure used in the initial management of Pierre Robin Syndrome.

Sir Archibald McIndoe, 1900 - 1960.
Renowned (and knighted) for work on skin grafts in the treatment of burned airmen in WWII; trained by Gillies; helped legitimize aesthetic surgery as a branch of plastic surgery.

Pere Gabard
Postage skin graft on burns.


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