Once relegated to facelifts and fat reduction, medical tourism has branched out into almost every kind of procedure, including bypass surgery, heart-valve replacement, angioplasty, knee reconstruction, and spinal fusion.

The suture must be firm enough to prevent gapping when the elasticity of the elastic layer has been in play for some time.

The latest in the production line of ruthless royal officials, Edward Belknap was cut from Dudley's cloth, a ‘mini-me’ of the most obnoxious variety.

Hope ſprings eternal in the human breaſt; / Man never is, but always to be bleſt.