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When two European plastic surgery residents were asked who they thought was the greatest American plastic surgeon, they confessed that they had never heard of Vilray Blair. Mention of the Blair knife soon rectified this temporary lapse of memory, but such a story emphasises how our working span and any fame that may accompany it is so short-lived.
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Tolhurst, D. (2015). Vilray P. Blair (1811–1955). In: Pioneers in Plastic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19539-1_11
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