1587 MERCURIALE, Girolamo (1530 – 1606); TAGLIACOZZI, Gaspare (1545 – 1599)
De decoratione liber…Additi nunc primum duo tractatus, alter, de varicibus, alter de reficiendo naso.
This work on cosmetics contains Tagliacozzi’s first publication on rhinoplasty – De reficiendo naso – a letter written to Mercuriale in response to inaccurate statements about Tagliacozzi's methods made by Mercuriale …
GMN 5733.52 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6514
1597 TAGLIACOZZI, Gaspare (1545 – 1599)
De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem.
Tagliacozzi of Bologna became famous for his work on rhinoplasty, but Paré and Fallopius both abused him and his work, and the Church (which regarded such operations as meddling with the work of God) exhumed his body …
GMN 5734 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6517
1794 LONGMATE, Barak (1768 – 1836)
Article on Indian rhinoplasty.
The first report published in Europe on the so-called Indian or Hindu method of rhinoplasty using a forehead flap, accompanied by an engraving of the patient, Cowasjee, with a restored nose and showing the stages of t…
GMN 5735.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6521
1816 CARPUE, Joseph Constantine (1764 – 1846)
An account of two successful operations for restoring a lost nose from the integuments of the forehead.
Carpue revived the Hindu method of rhinoplasty (see No. 5735.1), and reported two successful cases. Facsimile edition, with biography of Carpue by Frank C. McDowell and bibliography of his writings, Birmingham, Classi…
GMN 5737 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6527
1818 GRÄFE, Karl Ferdinand von [Graefe] (1787 – 1840)
Rhinoplastik, oder die Kunst den Verlust der Nase organisch zu ersetzen.
Von Graefe revived rhinoplasty in Germany with this survey of what he called the three methods: the Italian, the Indian, and the “German” method, his own variation on the Italian method. On p. 13 he described the firs…
GMN 5738 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6529
1821 CLOQUET, Jules Hippolyte (1787 – 1840)
Osphrésiologie, ou traité des odeurs, du sens et des organes de l’olfaction. 2me. éd.
An exhaustive work which discusses olfaction, diseases of the nose, membranous occlusion of the nostrils, deviations of the septum, rhinoplasty, coryza, vasomotor rhinitis, rhinorrhoea, etc. The first edition was enti…
GMN 3253 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3919
1822 BÜNGER, Christian Heinrich (1782 – 1842)
Gelungener Versuch einer Nasenbildung aus einem völlig getrennten Hautstück aus dem Beine.
First well-documented full-thickness skin graft, used for a rhinoplasty on a patient whose nose and forehead had been destroyed by uncontrolled lupus. English translation in No. 5768.2.
GMN 5740.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6540
1823 –1828 DELPECH, Jacques Mathieu (1777 – 1832)
Chirurgie clinique de Montpellier. 2 vols.
Delpech's work includes the first account of rhinoplasty in France. On 4 June 1823, Delpech performed the first of six cases of rhinoplasty by the Indian forehead flap method, and one (unsuccessful) with a flap from t…
GMN 4312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6544
1829 –1834 DIEFFENBACH, Johann Friedrich (1792 – 1847)
Chirurgische Erfahrungen besonders über die Wiederherstellung zerstörter Theile des menschlichen Körpers nach neuen Methoden. 3 vols. [in 4] and atlas.
Dieffenbach was Professor of Surgery in Berlin. He was a pioneer in the field of plastic and orthopedic surgery, performing tenotomy and skin-grafting successfully. English translation of the section on rhinoplasty, w…
GMN 5743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6553
1837 WARREN, Jonathan Mason (1811 – 1867)
Rhinoplastic operation.
The first rhinoplasty reported in the United States. For this Warren used the Hindu method, grafting the flap from the forehead of the patient. Warren reported the first use of the Italian or Tagliacotian method (graf…
GMN 5743.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6561
1840 BRETT, Frederick Harrington
A practical essay on some of the principal surgical diseases of India.
Includes a discussion of the Hindu method of rhinoplasty and other plastic operations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8465 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10642
1847 DIEFFENBACH, Johann Friedrich (1792 – 1847)
Die Aether gegen den Schmerz.
First application of ether anesthesia for plastic operations. Dieffenbach made his first use of the anesthetic in reconstructing a nose. He modified Morton’s inhaler. Dieffenbach’s work helped bring about the early ac…
GMN 5659.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7302
1857 SZYMANOWSKI, Julius Alfons Nikolai (1829 – 1868)
Adnotationes ad Rhinoplasticen. Commentatio quam consensu et auctoritate ....ad veniam legendi.
Digital facsimile of the 1847 edition from dspace.ut.ee at this link. Szymanoski's dissertation was translated into German as "Zur plastischen Chirurgie," Vierteljahrschrift für die praktische Heilkunde, 60 (1858) 127…
GMN 11701 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13902
1868 HAESER, Heinrich (1811 – 1884); MIDDELDORPF, Albrecht Theodor (1824 – 1868); PFOLSPEUNDT, Heinrich von [Pfolsprundt] (1440 – )
Pfolspeundt: Buch der Bündth-Ertznei. Hrsg. von H. Haeser und A. Middeldorpf.
Although not printed until 1868, this treatise was written about 1460, and is the first work of the early German surgeons. Pfolspeundt was a Bavarian army surgeon; his book includes the first allusion to the extractio…
GMN 5558 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7429
1887 ROE, John Orlando (1848 – 1915)
The deformity termed “pug nose” and its correction, by a simple operation.
Roe invented the intranasal approach for corrective rhinoplasty.
GMN 5754.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6628
1891 ROE, John Orlando (1848 – 1915)
The correction of angular deformities of the nose by a subcutaneous operation.
The first reduction rhinoplasty to enhance the appearance of a patient. See No. 5755.3.
GMN 5754.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6629
1892 WEIR, Robert Fulton (1838 – 1927)
On restoring sunken noses without scarring the face.
Reduction rhinoplasty by the endonasal approach. “The beginnings of the logical step-by-step rhinoplasty in use today” (McDowell).
GMN 5754.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6631
1896 ISRAEL, James Adolf (1848 – 1926)
Zwei neue Methoden der Rhinoplastik.
First free bone graft to the nose. Abridged English translation in No. 5768.2.
GMN 5755.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6638
1898 JOSEPH, Jacques (1865 – 1934)
Über die operative Verkleinerung eine Nase (Rhinomiosis).
Joseph rhinoplasty, developed independently of Roe (Nos. 5754.4-5) and Weir (No. 5754.6). Translation in Plast. reconstr. Surg., 1970, 46, 178-81.
GMN 5755.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6645
1898 MONKS, George Howard (1853 – 1933)
Correction, by operation, of some nasal deformities and disfigurements.
Monks developed the modern surgical treatment of rhinophyma.
GMN 5755.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6649
1918 ROBERTS, John Bingham (1852 – 1924)
War surgery of the face: A treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury. Prepared at the suggestion of the Subsection on Plastic and Oral Surgery connected with the Office of the Surgeon General.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 12076 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14285
1931 JOSEPH, Jacques (1865 – 1934)
Nasenplastik und sonitige Gesichitsplastik nebst einem Anhang über Mammaplastik.
A masterpiece of 20th century plastic surgery, and Joseph’s most comprehensive work. English translation by Stanley Milstein, following original text and illustrations page for page: Rhinoplasty and facial plastic sur…
GMN 5763.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6714
