British Royalty and Aristocracy: Their skin maladies Part I. Winston Churchill: Wartime skin graft donor

Devinder Singh; Nick J Levell; Lawrence Charles Parish; Leonard J Hoenig

doi:10.1016/j.clindermatol.2022.07.005

British Royalty and Aristocracy: Their skin maladies Part I. Winston Churchill: Wartime skin graft donor

Clin Dermatol. 2022 Nov-Dec;40(6):665-670. doi: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2022.07.005. Epub 2022 Jul 28.

Authors

Devinder Singh¹, Nick J Levell², Lawrence Charles Parish³, Leonard J Hoenig⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
² Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Private practice, Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA. Electronic address: gooddocljh@gmail.com.

PMID: 35907575
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2022.07.005

Abstract

Following the 1898 Battle of Omdurman in Sudan, Winston Churchill, then a second lieutenant in the British army, donated a skin graft to Richard Molyneux, a wounded fellow officer. This contribution tells the story of Churchill's skin graft donation within the context of the development of skin grafting as a viable treatment for serious wounds and burns.

MeSH terms

Burns* / surgery
Famous Persons*
Humans
Skin Transplantation