To get the real story on fake breasts , let ’s openIn The Beginning : A Mouthwatering Guide to the Origins of Everythingand wrick to the page on implants .
now , having one ’s white meat augmented seems closely as hackneyed as having one ’s hair perm . One of the most frequently perform decorative process , more than 200,000 U.S. adult female had the OR in 2000 alone . But it was n’t always this style : once upon a sentence , tit augmentation was a highly questionable , semi - data-based function that frequently ensue in disfigurement and health - endangering complications . Of course , people subjected themselves to it anyway , jump on the bandwagon whenever a fresh method make out along .
The story begins in 1890 , when Austrian doctor Robert Gersuny kicked things off by inject paraffin wax into cleaning lady ’s chest . The results look fine for awhile , but over clock time grew hard and lumpy . regretful yet , contagion rate were alarmingly high , so by the 1920s the procedure had been totally abandon . In its berth , surgeon experimented with the transplant of fat tissue from the abdomen and buttocks to the breasts , but the fat was often reabsorbed by the body , leaving the subject area with crooked breasts and unsightly scrape where the fat had been harvested .
Pains and Needles
While the abominable bankruptcy scared woman away from the surgical method acting for some time , that did nothing to stop American worship of the well - endowed woman . Icons like Marilyn Monroe , Ava Gardner and Lana Turner helped solidify the gravity - defying , bombshell - form tit as the de rigueur " novel look" in the 1940s and 1950s , and many women plow to " falsies" and bra - stuffing to keep up . It did n’t take long , however , for operating surgeon to get out their scalpel and needle again , and in the 1950s women set about to have various types of synthetic and polyvinyl sponge implanted . This may have been the bad approach yet : the quick study begin to shrivel up and harden a few calendar month after surgery , and infections , inflammations and a malignant neoplastic disease panic eventually doom the s es to the necropolis of break down knocker augmentation therapy .
Pros and Silicones
progressively despairing , sawbones in the late 1950s went for a collective Hail Mary . They implant everything from pearl clump and wool to ox gristle into their unwitting greaseball pigs ' breasts " “ but none of it make . During World War II , Japanese prostitutes reportedly injected themselves with silicone to better attract the patronage of American GIs , a technique that became so popular that silicone became a valued commodity . bare-breasted dancers in the U.S. also got articulatio coxae to silicone shots , but it was n’t long before complications like discoloration and transmission put a muffler on the silicone polymer fever .
This piece was written by Ransom Riggs and excerpted from the mental_floss bookIn the showtime : The Origins of Everything . you could pick up a copyin our fund .
