Latest News Welcome to the new BAPRAS Collection Virtual Museum! New content is continually added. Collection Highlights Click on the images below to discover more about the BAPRAS Collection... 1910 John Grocott MRCS, LRCP, MBBS, FRCS John Grocott is the unknown “Fifth Man” of British Plastic surgery, and... Learn More 1850 Research Room Artefact database Visit the link below to search the collection database (Axiell) for all artefacts, images and... Learn More 1917 Why "The Queen's"? The Queen’s Hospital was named after Queen Mary, consort of King George... Learn More 1918 Sidcup's Australian Section An Australian section was formed at Sidcup, shortly following that from New... Learn More 1920 Gillies in America Shortly after the First World War, in November 1920, Harold Gillies made his first of several... Learn More 1925 A First International Congress of Plastic Surgery It is said that the “First International Congress of Plastic Surgery” took place in Stockholm in... Learn More 2012 BFIRST The British Foundation for International Reconstructive Surgery and Training (BFIRST) is a UK... Learn More 1987 BAPS Certification Training Scheme In 1987 BAPS introduced a three-year training scheme in plastic surgery for overseas graduates not... Learn More Curator's Spotlight Tannafax for Burns Early Use Tannic acid was proposed as a topical treatment for burn wounds in 1925 by EC Davidson in Detroit, USA. He applied gauze dressings to burns soaked with 2.5% tannic acid as a means to reduce the previously high mortality rate resulting from really quite small area burns and scalds. It... Learn More Share