ABSTRACT
Source: Dugain, M. The Officers’ Ward. London: The Orion Publishing Group Ltd, 2000. Reproduced by permission.
Louis Levauchelle had joined us in November 1915. His wound was very similar to mine and to those of several other wounded men on our floor. A hole in the middle of the face, as if the flesh had been sucked in from the inside. He had already undergone three attempted grafts, in hospitals with less of a reputation than ours, first with the cartilage of a pig, then a sow, then a calf. All three rejected.
