
Plastic Surgery and the Bottomless Pit of Alienation
Marx Engels Institute
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Cosmatic Surgery - The Most Significant Improvements in Body Modification
In the ancient world, like in rome, they did have some very rudimentary surgical approaches aimed at modifying the body. In these societies there are mostly ger towards reconstruction after injury or damage. So if you were burnt, or if you your limb was injured for some reason, your ear was injured or whatever, they had some very rudimentary techniques to try to repair that damage. The most significant improvements in the field of classic surgery, i'm so, i guessif we didn't find it very specifically as surgery done to to make cosmatic enhancements, generally speaking, happened during the first world war.
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