As the threat of smallpox, measles and other disfiguring childhood diseases has receded, so the balance of power between doctors and patients has shifted.
Perhaps syphilis was already present in the population, but doctors had only just begun to distinguish between syphilis and other disfiguring illnesses such as leprosy; or perhaps the disease suddenly increased in virulence at the end of the 15th century.
Then they very rapidly flashed photographs of people's faces, some normal and others disfigured in some way.
used to cover a large number of lesions of various kinds".3 It leaves underexplored the relation between the King's Evil and other disfiguring conditions that preoccupied much early modern health care.
Arthur Collins, a 25-year-old man, was arrested in connection to an acid attack last weekend in the Mangle E8 nightclub in Dalston that left two people partially-blind and others disfigured.
Others arrive disfigured by the sham-democracy of test-marketing and the bureacratic authoritarianism of top-down scriptwriting by committee.
Some characters have silly names (Mr. Mutton, Ms. Carbuncle); others are disfigured or sport "zany" affectations, like the bankruptcy lawyer who carries a toy sword into his legal battles.
But the Faile art — along with other furniture — has disfigured the great foyer of Philip Johnson's theater all season.
After all, Anna's young son is left motherless at the end of the novel, and a good many other lives are disfigured.
