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Printing the body

The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.

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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug

Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.

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My important, ridiculous nose

The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.

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  • Plate LXXIII. Surgical technique for rhinoplasty.
  • Face of a man showing the results of a rhinoplasty operation
  • Two photographs of a man showing the results of a rhinoplasty operation
  • Case where an operation for restoring a lost nose, was successfully performed / by John Davies.
  • Gasparis Taliacotii ... De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo. In quibus ea omnia, quae ad huius chirurgiae, narium scilicet, aurium, ac labiorum per insitionem restaurandorum cum theoricen, tum practicen pertinere videbantur, clarissima methodo cumulatissimè declarantur. Additis cutis traducis instrumentorum omnium, atque deligationum iconibus, & tabulis. Cum indice quadruplici expeditissimo, capitum singulorum, authorum, controversiarum, rerum denique & verborum memorabilium ... / [Gaspare Tagliacozzi].
  • Plastic surgery of the nose / by Albert P. Seltzer.
  • Gasparis Taliacotii ... De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo. In quibus ea omnia, quae ad huius chirurgiae, narium scilicet, aurium, ac labiorum per insitionem restaurandorum cum theoricen, tum practicen pertinere videbantur, clarissima methodo cumulatissimè declarantur. Additis cutis traducis instrumentorum omnium, atque deligationum iconibus, & tabulis. Cum indice quadruplici expeditissimo, capitum singulorum, authorum, controversiarum, rerum denique & verborum memorabilium ... / [Gaspare Tagliacozzi].
  • Gasparis Taliacotii ... De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo. In quibus ea omnia, quae ad huius chirurgiae, narium scilicet, aurium, ac labiorum per insitionem restaurandorum cum theoricen, tum practicen pertinere videbantur, clarissima methodo cumulatissimè declarantur. Additis cutis traducis instrumentorum omnium, atque deligationum iconibus, & tabulis. Cum indice quadruplici expeditissimo, capitum singulorum, authorum, controversiarum, rerum denique & verborum memorabilium ... / [Gaspare Tagliacozzi].
  • Triamcinolone crystals
  • Plate LXXII. Plastic surgery on the lip and nose.
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