V-2nd C4

[Dave Monroe]

   "Now luckily for some a law of supply and demand had been at work
in the field of plastic surgery."  (V., Ch. 4, p. 101)


"a law of supply and demand had been at work"

Faces of War

Amid the horrors of World War I, a corps of artists brought hope to
soldiers disfigured in the trenches

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/10023711.html

Artists' Masks Hid Wounds of World War I Soldiers

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7556326

Plastic Surgery in World War I and in World War II

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1803578/

http://www.plasticsurgery.org/About_ASPS/History_of_Plastic_Surgery.html#Early%20Years

Positive Effects of War Time Plastic Surgery

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/29759/positive_effects_of_war_time_plastic.html

Plastic surgery of the face based on selected cases of war injuries of
the face including burns, with original illustrations (1920)

http://www.archive.org/details/plasticsurgeryof00gilluoft


"Thiersch grafts"

Main Entry: Thiersch graft
Pronunciation: \ˈtirsh-\
Function: noun
: a skin graft that consists of thin strips or sheets of epithelium
with the tops of the dermal papillae and that is split off with a
sharp knife

Thiersch, Carl (1822–1895), German surgeon. Thiersch is famous for
introducing epidermal grafting in plastic surgery and for his
monographs on epithelial cancer of the skin and the healing of wounds.
He introduced the Thiersch graft in 1874.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/thiersch%20graft

Karl Thiersch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Thiersch