Wrinkle out of Time

Ed Schantz, the man who figured out a way to allow people to safely inject poison into their faces to forestall the aging process, has died at the age of 96, leaving a very smooth corpse. In 1946, Schantz and colleagues purified the botulinum toxin – the cause of the fatal muscle paralysis botulism – into a crystalline form, which eventually led to the discovery of a cure for muscle spasms associated with certain illnesses, and crossed eyes. In time, the medical miracle was developed into the commercial wrinkle remover Botox.