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Fig 19 Use of prosthesis. Severe head injury by missile entering left eye emerging above left ear. Loss of left eye, conjunctiva, orbital issue. Plastic repair not practical proposition. Treatment by means of self-retaining acrylic prosthesis. Camoflaged by means of convex spectacles

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Title: War Surgery and Medicine

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Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1954, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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