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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris

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Plastic surgery before penicillin is CRAZYYYYY. The way we didn't know how to properly use anesthesia or sterilize things and yet this man remade faces is absolutely bonkers. I learned so much!