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What specific procedure does the Sushruta Samhita (c. 600 BCE) describe that 1794 British surgeons brought home from India?
The Sushruta Samhita describes about 300 surgical procedures. The forehead-flap rhinoplasty — a paddle of forehead skin swung down to reconstruct a lost nose — was the one Joseph Carpue brought to London in 1794-1814.
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The Sanskrit Surgical Treatise From Around 600 BCE That Describes the Forehead-Flap Nose Reconstruction Eighteenth-Century English Surgeons Then Brought Home The *Sushruta Samhita*, a Sanskrit surgical treatise compiled around 600 BCE, describes 1,120 illnesses and 300 surgical procedures, including a forehead-flap rhinoplasty technique used to reconstruct noses cut off as judicial punishment. The 1794 *Gentleman's Magazine* of London published an account of the same procedure performed in Pune, observed by two British East India Company surgeons. Modern plastic surgery traces its lineage to that 1794 report.
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