God bless io9, my favorite sci-fi blog. In addition to sci-fi, the blog hosts regular features — like Mad Science — that focus on real life things… such as 16th century nose jobs.
The post notes that it was multi-week process that involved grafting your whole arm onto your face and so forth. Apparently, it was mostly used for horribly wounded soldiers.
But let’s be real about this. We all know who invented the procedure…
