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Understanding, treating skin adornments

Tattooing, body piercing, and other skin adornments are nothing new.When the body of the Ice Man was discovered frozen in the mountains of NorthernItaly, the well-preserved 5,300-year-old corpse had tattoos on its knees.One belief is that the tattooing might have been for medicinal reasons -to remedy his arthritic knees.

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