Jacques Mathieu Delpech, Aimé Guinard Samuel Pozzi, three famous surgeons of the 19th and early 20th century were murdered by patients. All three contributed to the history of plastic surgery. Delpech (1777-1832) carried out the first plastic surgery in France using a forehead flap to replace a loss of substance on the face, Guinard (1856-1911) did the first reduction mammaplasty. Pozzi (1846-1918) was probably the first to perform an operation of face lift on one of his patients but did not publish it. These three surgeons were killed by unbalanced patients they had operated of benign lesions.