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4. Fixing Faces
Syphilis, bondage, an Indian brick maker and a Gentleman’s Magazine, and the terrible effects of aeroplane fuel… This is the story of plastic surgery. Plastic surgery is not a modern phenomenon. It started over 400 years ago with a spate of botched nose jobs, so badly engineered that the nose would fall off if the wind blew too hard. It marked the birth of a whole new obsession. Surgeons gradually became entranced with the idea that not only could they fix the body, but now they could even fix our sense of self-esteem.