Group of Patients at Dr. Kazanjian's Ward

Group of Patients at Dr. Kazanjian's Ward

Kazanjian, Varaztad Hovhannes

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Patients

Surgery, Plastic

During World War I, Dr Kazanjian used his unique surgical skill to treat the soldiers severely disfigured during combat. In 1915, he was appointed Dental Chief of the First Harvard Unit organized to serve overseas with the British Forces. He established the first dental and maxillofacial unit clinic in France as part of the Unit's services at the General Hospital in Camiers. This clinic was eventually moved to enlarged facilities and continued until February 1919. Dr. Kazanjian treated approximately 3,000 patients and he was eventually dubbed "Miracle Man of the Western Front."

Photograph of a group of patients at Dr. Varaztad H. Kazanjian's ward

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1917, circa

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Varaztad Hovhannes Kazanjian. Papers, 1900-1979, 1984. H MS c51.

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Gift of the Kazanjian Family to the National Archives of Plastic Surgery in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.