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When kids are offered free cosmetic surgery

When they were a child, Jasmine Owens’ dentist offered to break their jaw – for free. It would make them look better, he said. Read on to find out whether or not they agreed.

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Why even plastic surgery can’t hide you from facial recognition

Once upon a time, plastic surgery allowed a few notorious criminals to evade the law. But today, sophisticated facial-recognition technology has turned dreams of anonymity to dust.

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The mystery of the malignant brain

In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.

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The tale of the toxic kidneys

In 1954 a serendipitous coming together of skills and circumstances allowed the first successful organ transplant to take place. Read how Richard Herrick’s life was prolonged by his identical twin’s generosity.

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  • Plate LI. Surgery on the cavities of the face and throat.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier after incomplete plastic surgery to the lower face and neck. Photograph, 1916.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with injuries to the face, showing slight scarring after plastic surgery. Photograph, 1918.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with scarring after plastic surgery to the lower face and neck. Photograph, 1917.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with wounds to the lower face and neck, before plastic surgery. Photograph, 1916.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with scarring after plastic surgery to the lower face and neck: in profile. Photograph, 1917.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with wounds to the lower face and neck, before plastic surgery: in profile. Photograph, 1916.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with scarring due to a skin graft to the bridge of the nose and face surgery. Photograph, 1916.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with scarring due to a skin graft to the bridge of the nose and face surgery: in profile. Photograph, 1916.
  • A man with toothache sits in his nightgown, with a handkerchief around his face, in a surgery [?], and is discovered by "Botsam" in fright to be turning into a devil. Wood engraving by F. Wentworth after H.K. Browne.
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