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In 1624, a physician called Jean-Baptiste van Helmont told a strange story in his book of \u201cmagnetic cures\u201d about a man from Brussels who had lost his nose. Having had his nose cut off \u201cin combat\u201d, the man went to a famous Italian surgeon, Gaspare Tagliacozzi, who promised to make him a new one \u201cresembling nature\u2019s pattern\u201d. The problem was that Tagliacozzi wanted to use some of the man\u2019s own skin to recreate the nose. Not keen on this idea, the noseless man decided to buy his way to a new face. He hired a local porter to donate some of his skin and had the surgeon fashion a new nose out of this foreign tissue…\u00a0[read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Read the\u00a0latest long read,<\/a>\u00a0originally published in The Conversation<\/a>, by Dr Alanna Skuse, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow for the Department of English at the University of Reading and steering committee member of the Centre for Health Humanities.<\/p>\n

Image credit: Silver plated artificial nose. Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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