1881 ELY, Edward Talbot (1850 – 1885)

An operation for prominence of the auricles.

Otoplasty first described. Ely died very young from tuberculosis.

GMN 5754.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6623

1910 LUCKETT, William Henry (1872 – 1929)

A new operation for prominent ears based on the anatomy of the deformity.

Luckett developed the modern operation for the correction of protruding ears.

GMN 5756.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6663

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