Myths & mysteries
Ignatius of Loyola endured elective leg bone sawing
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Vanity makes people do horrifying things to their own skeletons. Displeased with how a cannonball injury caused a bone to protrude and ruin the fit of his fashionable tights, he ordered 16th-century surgeons to literally saw off the bump with zero anesthesia.
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