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Modern Plastic Surgery Started With an Ancient Indian Surgeon Named Sushruta
A cart driver named Cowasjee lost his nose in 1792. What happened next is the documented birth of modern reconstructive surgery. But that's only one of Sushruta's operations — he also described cataract surgery, and catalogued over a hundred surgical instruments, more than two thousand years before anyone in Europe did either.
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A cart driver named Cowasjee lost his nose in 1792. What happened next is the documented birth of modern reconstructive surgery. But that's only one of Sushruta's operations — he also described cataract surgery, and catalogued over a hundred surgical instruments, more than two thousand years before anyone in Europe did either.
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