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plastic surgery

plastic surgery: breast implant

plastic surgery; lip augmentation

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Fiona Wood, 2005.

Fiona Wood

Australian surgeon

Karl von Gräfe, engraving by G. Metzeroth, c. 1845, after a portrait by an unknown artist

Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe

German surgeon

Quiz

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