Reviewing the Medical Books and Journals that constituted Medical understanding a century back.

History of the Book of Medicine

June 23rd, 2007 at 12:42 pm

Plastic Surgery 101

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I am positive that people were concerned about their looks a hundred years ago.  There were all sorts of different products designed to captivate people’s attention and change their parents for the better, from her tonics beauty cream’s and many other concoctions.

 

Back then people don’t have the benefit of a strong FDA.  In fact truth in advertising laws were just in their infancy and starting to take hold.

 

Today we have the ability to change our appearance dramatically and drastically.  Modern medicine has evolved to the point that we have the ability to completely change and improve our parents.

To give you a good example you can take a look at plastic surgery 101, a website that provides a great deal of information about plastic surgery options and separates out some of the myths about plastic surgery from the reality.  In that regard medicine hasn’t changed great deal from a cultural perspective.  Your everyday person still has a number of misconceptions about medicine and how it can be utilized, and medical professionals are still trying to help people sift through the differences between fact and fantasy.

The same website also offers a number of details on rhinoplasty, a procedure commonly referred to as a “nose job.”  The site breaks down the distinction between a Beverly Hills rhinoplasty surgical procedure sometimes used for cosmetic purposes and sometimes used for reconstructive purposes.  The procedure is common enough today regardless of the purpose.  In fact I know several people that have had the procedure done for both reasons.  I’ve even had to family members of had rhinoplasty following procedures to correct deficiencies in their nasal passages.

The reality is that there are plastic surgeons in very good plastic surgeons all over the world these days.  Some of the earliest and best set of practices creating an industry of Los Angeles plastic surgery, but that industry has grown across the country and is beginning to grow around the world.

These concepts will have been completely foreign 90 years ago in execution, but in concept and desire the human condition has not changed at all in 90 years just our ability to achieve our hearts desire.

 

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