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Sir Charles Hayward, CBE, HonFRCS
Brilish Journal of Plasfic Surgery (1983) 36.401-408 (9 1983 The Trustees of British Association of Plastic Surgeons
Obituary Sir Charles Hayward, CBE, HonFRCS Sir Charles Hayward, who died on the 3rd February 1983, aged 90, was one of those great benefactors in the mould of William Morris. Starting his own firm in a shed he rented for half a crown, skill, hard work and business acumen led him from motor cycle parts, through heavy engineering to world-wide trading groups. Then he turned to look around him and help those most in need. The Hayward Foundation was his vehicle and he chaired it to the end. In the 20 years since its foundation it has spread as many million pounds. It has mainly helped the aged, the young, the frail and maimed: not so much as fixed subventions, but to aid research and projects, ventures of self-help. Hospitals and churches, Universities and Royal Colleges are among the bodies helped and some have granted honours as a token of their gratitude. As an unaccustomed venture, over the past 10 years, the Hayward Foundation has made it possible for us to award Hayward grants to enable younger surgeons finance their training abroad. As an expression of its deep gratitude, the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1977 elected Sir Charles Hayward an Honorary Member. RAOUL P. G. SANDON
The seven chapters take us logically through the surgical and physical anatomy of the breast, the general problems of all implant material, silicone breast implants, surgical indications, complications, techniques of anaesthesia and surgical techniques of implant insertion. None of this is new, much has been better presented elsewhere and if regarded as a “collective review” this book is disappointing. There are some useful references in the bibliography to French work that is otherwise difficult to trace but sadly not all of these are complete or even accurate. The rest of the bibliography both in the text and in the index is even worse. Misprints abound: Goldwin, Gabiani, Broomley Freeman, MacGhan and Heyer Shulte. Halstedt is given a Teutonic ending that may please the EEC, but will hardly delight our American colleagues. Many names appear in the text but not in the index and vice versa. These are not the kind of mistakes that one expects to find in a slim expensive book that deals with such a narrowly defined clinical subject. The simple line diagrams are good but not many of the clinical photographs are so fortunate. The ultimate indignity is to see
Book Reviews Protheses Mammaires. By Jean-Sauveur Elbaz and Jacques Ohana. First Edition. Pp ix+ 136 with 30 diagrams and 140 illustrations. (Paris: Medecine et Sciences Internationales, 1982). Price 340 FF. This slim volume of approximately 140 pages is the work of two well-known French colleagues, with the assistance of two collaborators Dr Ch. Benharoun and Dr H. Veau, who, although it is not stated anywhere in the text, may well have been responsible for the chapter on anaesthesia. The preface opens with two interesting anonymous quotations: “. . mammary prostheses would pose no problems at all if the breast was physiologically solid: unhappily it isn’t . .” and “. if it is true that a prosthesis has a 1 in 3 (33%) chance of producing a ‘hard’ breast, then one must not perform this operation .“. 401
Obituary Sir Charles Hayward, CBE, HonFRCS Sir Charles Hayward, who died on the 3rd February 1983, aged 90, was one of those great benefactors in the mould of William Morris. Starting his own firm in a shed he rented for half a crown, skill, hard work and business acumen led him from motor cycle parts, through heavy engineering to world-wide trading groups. Then he turned to look around him and help those most in need. The Hayward Foundation was his vehicle and he chaired it to the end. In the 20 years since its foundation it has spread as many million pounds. It has mainly helped the aged, the young, the frail and maimed: not so much as fixed subventions, but to aid research and projects, ventures of self-help. Hospitals and churches, Universities and Royal Colleges are among the bodies helped and some have granted honours as a token of their gratitude. As an unaccustomed venture, over the past 10 years, the Hayward Foundation has made it possible for us to award Hayward grants to enable younger surgeons finance their training abroad. As an expression of its deep gratitude, the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1977 elected Sir Charles Hayward an Honorary Member. RAOUL P. G. SANDON
The seven chapters take us logically through the surgical and physical anatomy of the breast, the general problems of all implant material, silicone breast implants, surgical indications, complications, techniques of anaesthesia and surgical techniques of implant insertion. None of this is new, much has been better presented elsewhere and if regarded as a “collective review” this book is disappointing. There are some useful references in the bibliography to French work that is otherwise difficult to trace but sadly not all of these are complete or even accurate. The rest of the bibliography both in the text and in the index is even worse. Misprints abound: Goldwin, Gabiani, Broomley Freeman, MacGhan and Heyer Shulte. Halstedt is given a Teutonic ending that may please the EEC, but will hardly delight our American colleagues. Many names appear in the text but not in the index and vice versa. These are not the kind of mistakes that one expects to find in a slim expensive book that deals with such a narrowly defined clinical subject. The simple line diagrams are good but not many of the clinical photographs are so fortunate. The ultimate indignity is to see
Book Reviews Protheses Mammaires. By Jean-Sauveur Elbaz and Jacques Ohana. First Edition. Pp ix+ 136 with 30 diagrams and 140 illustrations. (Paris: Medecine et Sciences Internationales, 1982). Price 340 FF. This slim volume of approximately 140 pages is the work of two well-known French colleagues, with the assistance of two collaborators Dr Ch. Benharoun and Dr H. Veau, who, although it is not stated anywhere in the text, may well have been responsible for the chapter on anaesthesia. The preface opens with two interesting anonymous quotations: “. . mammary prostheses would pose no problems at all if the breast was physiologically solid: unhappily it isn’t . .” and “. if it is true that a prosthesis has a 1 in 3 (33%) chance of producing a ‘hard’ breast, then one must not perform this operation .“. 401