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Know the first person to go under knife for plastic surgery

New Delhi: Walter Yeo, a British sailor during World War I, is often cited as the first known person to have benefited from plastic surgery.Walter sustained terrible facial injuries, including the loss of his upper



The London-based Gillies opened a specialist ward for the treatment of the facially-wounded at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, Kent.



Walter Yeo is one of the first patients to benefit from his newly-developed technique, a form of skin grafting called “tubed pedical.”



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