History Of Plastic Surgery. Plastic surgery has become such a part of the american landscape that it is hard to imagine that the field originated less than one hundred years ago. The middle ages and the renaissance.
Before the world was inundated with the material we call plastic the word meant capable of being molded that was its meaning in early plastic surgery as surgeons used a person s existing living tissues to replace the parts that had been lost to war injuries. Physicians in ancient india used skin grafts for reconstructive. The sphere 20 may 1933 in this special blog using newspapers taken from the archive we will trace the development of plastic surgery from the work of harold gillies in the first.
Sushruta lived around 600 bc and he recorded his work in a.
History of plastic surgery. Plastic surgery has become such a part of the american landscape that it is hard to imagine that the field originated less than one hundred years ago. Sushruta lived around 600 bc and he recorded his work in a. The middle ages and the renaissance.