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Plastic surgery: transformed by WW1

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Anastasis and the Face Maker

Anaesthesia hadn't developed much since the nineteenth century. It begins with the first ever ether operationin ondon in 18 forty six. They're trying to rebuild the soldier's face, and he's literally exhaling ether into your face. So theyhe eventually anasticist over here whome worked with named mc gill created inter trachial anaestesia.

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