from web site
History [modify] Treatments for the plastic repair of a damaged nose are first pointed out in the Edwin Smith Papyrus, a transcription of text dated to the Old Kingdom from 3000 to 2500 BCE. The (c. 1550 BC), an Ancient Egyptian medical papyrus, describes nose job as the plastic surgical operation for reconstructing a nose destroyed by rhinectomy.
Rhinoplasty techniques are explained in the ancient Indian text by Sushruta, where a nose is rebuilded by utilizing a flap of skin from the cheek. During Dr William Portuese (27 BC 476 AD) the encyclopaedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC 50 AD) published the 8-tome (On Medication, c. 14 AD), which described cosmetic surgery techniques and treatments for the correction and the reconstruction of the nose and other body parts.
320400 ADVERTISEMENT) published the 70-volume Synagogue Medicae (Medical Compilations, 4th century advertisement), which described facial-defect restorations that included loose sutures that allowed a surgical wound to recover without distorting the facial flesh; how to clean the bone exposed in a wound; debridement, how to get rid of broken tissue to avert infection therefore accelerate recovery of the wound; and how to use autologous skin flaps to repair damaged cheeks, eyebrows, lips, and nose, to bring back the patient's normal visage.
The illustrations included a re-attachment rhinoplasty using a biceps muscle pedicle flap; the graft attached at 3-weeks post-procedure; which, at 2-weeks post-attachment, the surgeon then formed into a nose. In Great Britain, Joseph Constantine Carpue (17641846) published the descriptions of 2 rhinoplasties: the reconstruction of a battle-wounded nose, and the repair work of an arsenic-harmed nose.
Carpue's operation). Synthetic nose, made from plated metal, 17th18th century Europe. This would have been used as an option to rhinoplasty. In Germany, rhinoplastic technique was refined by cosmetic surgeons such as the Berlin University professor of surgical treatment Karl Ferdinand von Grfe (17871840), who published Rhinoplastik (Restoring the Nose, 1818) where he explained 55 historic cosmetic surgery procedures, and his technically ingenious free-graft nasal reconstruction (with a tissue-flap harvested from the patient's arm), and surgical techniques to eyelid, cleft lip, and cleft palate corrections.