Monday, June 12, 2006
Cosmetic Surgery
& Nose Jobs in Ancient
The
ANNOTICO Report
In ancient
That knowledge may have been of particular help to Emperor Justinian II, who
was deposed in 695 AD. Believing a disfigured man could never reign, his foes
cut off his nose. But Justinian returned to power in 704, and scholars point to
signs of a forehead scar on old imperial statues as evidence he'd had a nose
job.
In subsequent centuries, surgery fell out of favor. When it came back into
fashion in 15th century
European interest was rekindled in the 1700s, when tales of Indian rhinoplasty traveled west. The tales inspired one British
surgeon, Joseph Carpue, to test the technique on
cadavers. By his own account, he could restore a missing nose in just over 15
minutes.
World War I drove more advances in plastic surgery than any other period.
Today, plastic surgery is more cosmetically oriented than ever: Of the 15.6
million procedures performed by
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ESOTERICA MEDICA
ANCIENT NOSE JOBS NOT SO PRETTY
Los Angeles Times
Elena Conis
June 12, 2006
Cosmetic surgery dates back to the 1890s, when anesthesia and sanitation were
finally advanced enough to warrant smoothing out or resizing a nose for purely
aesthetic reasons. Surgeons had been reconstructing noses and other body parts for medical reasons for more than 2,000
years at that point.
Around 600 BC, an Indian surgeon, Sushruta, jotted
down tips for restoring damaged noses and ears. He instructed surgeons often members of the tile and brick makers'
castes to cut skin from the cheek
or forehead, press it to the severed part, and sew the ensemble back in place.
It was handy advice: In India at that time, adultery and other crimes were
grounds for having one's nose cut off.
In ancient
That knowledge may have been of particular help to Emperor Justinian II, who
was deposed in 695 AD. Believing a disfigured man could never reign, his foes
cut off his nose. But Justinian returned to power in 704, and scholars point to
signs of a forehead scar on old imperial statues as evidence he'd had a nose
job.
In subsequent centuries, surgery fell out of favor. When it came back into
fashion in 15th century
Surgeons and barbers sometimes took tissue for re-crafting noses and ears from
"donors" a sister or
neighbor, or even a duck. T! hey were puzzled by the
astounding rate at which those new noses and ears shriveled up and fell off.
They concluded that the flesh was "sympathetic" that it died when its donor did.
European interest was rekindled in the 1700s, when tales of Indian rhinoplasty traveled west. The tales inspired one British
surgeon, Joseph Carpue, to test the technique on
cadavers. By his own account, he could restore a missing nose in just over 15
minutes.
European surgeons further honed such techniques. Armed with anesthesia,
surgeons no longer had to rush to spare their patients pain. The advent of germ
theory led to fewer infections. By the 1890s, a few doctors argued that rhinoplasty could be performed for aesthetic reasons alone.
World War I drove more advances in plastic surgery than any other period.
Trench warfare resulted in so many head and neck injuries that the
Today, plastic surgery is more cosmetically oriented than ever: Of the 15.6
million procedures performed by
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