The Crimson Portrait

by Jody Shields

  Unknown Warriors by K. E. Luard, The American Red Cross in the Great War by Henry P. Davison, and Observations of an Orderly by Ward Muir described wartime medical care. Numerous journals provided the history of plastic surgery and details of surgical practice, including La Revue Maxillo-Facial, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, and The Lancet. Other notable books include Le Colonel Picot et les Gueules Cassées by Noele Roubaud and R. N. Brehamet, Gillies: Surgeon Extraordinary by Reginald Pound, The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault, and Skin by Claudia Benthien, translated by Thomas Dunlap. John Marquis Converse’s “The Extraordinary Career of Doctor Varaztad Hovhannes Kazanjian,” published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and History of the Harvard Dental School by Richard Locke Hapgood were invaluable in shaping the doctor’s character.

  I would like to acknowledge the generous contribution of my editor, Terry Adams. For kind permission to research in the Gillies Archives at Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, I would like to thank Dr. Andrew Bamji, Curator. I also wish to thank the Imperial War Museum, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the Wellcome Institute, and the New York Academy of Medicine.