Plastic and cosmetic surgeryKolle, Frederick Strange
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Plastic and cosmetic surgery
Kolle, Frederick Strange
Surgery, Plastic
Now again came a century of forgetfulness, the scientific world taking no
cognizance of the work done until, suddenly, in 1794, a message came from
Poonah, India, to the effect that an East Indian peasant named Cowasjee,
a cowherd following the English army, was captured by Tippo Sahib, who
ordered the prisoner’s nose to be amputated. His wounds were dressed and
healed by English surgeons. Shortly after this the victim of this odd
mode of punishment was befriended by the Koomas, a colony of potters,
or, as others claim, a religious sect, who knew how to restore the nose
by means of a flap taken from the forehead. They operated on him and
restored his nose much to the surprise of Pennant, who reported the case
in England.
Shortly following this, and in the same year, cases of similar nature are
described in the _Gentlemen’s Magazine_ (England), and Pennant’s “Views
of Hindoostan.”
In 1811 Lynn successfully accomplished the operation in a case in
England, and in 1814 Carpue published his results in two cases
successfully operated by him by the so-called Hindoo method.
France now took up the art of rhinoplasty. Delpech introduced a
modification of the method of the Koomas in 1820, while Lisfranc
performed the first operation of this nature in Paris in 1826.
In 1816 Graefe, of Germany, took up the work of Tagliacozzi but modified
his method by diminishing the number of operations.
Bünger, of Marburg, thereupon, in 1823, successfully made a man’s nose by
taking the necessary tegument from the patient’s thigh.
A still later modification in the art of rhinoplasty was that of Larrey,
who in 1830 overcame a large loss about the lobule of the nose by taking
the flaps to restore the same from the cheeks.
Among the better advocates of reparative chirurgery were Dieffenbach,
v. Langenbeck, Ricard, v. Graefe (1816), Alliot, Blandin, Zeis, Serre,
and Joberi, while Thomas D. Mutter, in 1831, published the results he
obtained in America—his co-workers being Warren and Pancoast.
Although Le Monier, a French dentist, as early as 1764 originally
proposed closure of the cleft in the soft palate, no one attempted
to carry out his suggestion until in 1819 the elder Roux, of Paris,
performed the operation. The following year Warren, of Boston,
independently decided upon and successfully did an improved operation to
the same end.
During the years 1865-70 Joseph Lister distinguished himself in the
discovery and meritorious employment of carbolic acid as a means of
destroying, or at least arresting, infectious germ life, the principle
of which, now so fully developed, has advanced the obtainable surgical
possibilities inestimably.
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