Queen Victoria Hospital
June 6th, 2007
Filed under: Places
The Queen Victoria Hospital has become world famous for its pioneering burns and plastic surgery. Most famously, it was where the Guinea Pig Club was formed in 1941 after Sir Archibald McIndoe joined the hospital in 1939 to set up a special unit for the treatment of soldiers from the second world war to treat their facial and burns injuries.
The hospital is located in East Grinstead. The Princess Royal is the current patron of the hospital.
June 6th, 2007 at 12:38 am
[…] When World War II broke out plastic surgery was largely divided on service lines. Gillies went to Rooksdown House near Basingstoke, which became the principal army plastic surgery unit; Tommy Kilner (who had worked with Gillies during the First World War) went to Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton and Mowlem to St Albans. McIndoe moved to the recently rebuilt Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex, and founded a Centre for Plastic and Jaw Surgery. There, he treated very deep burns and serious facial disfigurement like loss of eyelids. Patients at the hospital formed the Guinea Pig Club. One of the better known members of his “club” was Richard Hillary. […]