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Ahmedabad, 16 July 2024 (Google translation from Gujarati)
A doctor in India performed plastic surgery on the face of an Englishman. Since then, surgery, known worldwide as plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery, was born in India. From here this art spread all over the world. Janak Vaidya Sushruta was the father of this science. Descendant of Rishi Vishwamitra and disciple of Kashinaresh Divodas Dhanvantari. Vishwamitra was born in the Kushik dynasty of Kanyakubj country.
First hospital in Gujarat
Shardaben General Hospital in Saraspur, Ahmedabad has the oldest plastic surgery department in Gujarat.
For more than 30 years, operations like congenital deformities, (jointed fingers and toes, underdeveloped parts of the upper face, urinary tract problems) treatment of burns, treatment of patients with complete amputation of hands, feet or fingers, treatment of patients with facial and nose injuries and ligatures, treatment of muscles and blood vessels, fistula formation and cosmetic surgery for diabetes are performed.
New microscope machine will be installed in the plastic surgery department soon. With the use of which, the operation of reattaching the severed limbs and fingers will be possible.
Plastic surgery in Gujarat
There are 160 plastic surgeons in the state of Gujarat. An average of 300 surgeries are performed per day. 1.01 lakh plastic surgeries are being performed per year by 160 plastic surgeons of the state. Plastic surgeries worth Rs 635 crore are performed every year in Gujarat. Ahmedabad has the highest, Surat has the lowest.
Most plastic surgeries are done in incidents like fire, accident, animal bites. 12 thousand will be given for minor surgery and 40 thousand for major surgery. There are only 10 plastic surgeons in four major cities.
India first
Lord Shiva took the head of an elephant and placed it on the torso of his son Ganesha.
Rhinoplasty in Pune in 1793 became the model for European surgery.
During the Third Anglo-Mysore War in 1792, Cowasji, a bullock-driver serving in the British army on the orders of Tipu Sultan, suffered a deformed nose. Cowasji’s nose was reconstructed by an Indian potter in Pune in January 1793.
A letter to the editor published in ‘The Gentleman’s Magazine’ in October 1794 has proved to be a landmark event in the history of plastic surgery and particularly in the field of corrective rhinoplasty.
A paper printed under the title ‘Strange Surgical Operations’ gave a brief description of a nose reconstruction surgery performed in Pune on an Indian bullock-driver whose nose had been cut off.
The letter was accompanied by a photograph of the patient, identified as Cowasji, who was recovering from an operation. The appearance of the patient shows that it was a very successful result.
This paper introduced the ‘Indian method’ of reconstructing the cut nose using the forehead to Europe, which quickly became popular in the West.
The first incident
Colonel Sir Eric Coote KB, a British military officer who returned home after serving in India between 1780 and 1790, showed the plastic surgery done on his nose by an Indian doctor to the British Parliament.
Colonel Coote also wrote in his personal diary.
At the same time, the British army kept fighting with the local kingdoms in various places, who had occupied that state.
Similarly, Colonel Coote with his military detachment was slowly making his way around Karnataka in South India. Colonel Coote’s army suffered heavy losses in the war. Colonel Coote was captured alive. As a prisoner of war, Hyder Ali cut off Coote’s nose.
A horse reached a village three-four hours away from Hyder Ali’s kingdom. A native doctor saw him and washed the wound. The doctor reassured him and promised to reattach the colonel’s nose. The colonel did not believe that this doctor would fix his nose, which was cut off by Hyder Ali. But the Vaidya, an expert in ancient Indian Ayurveda and chiropractic, put his nose back on his face. At the time of departure, Coote gave an herbal ointment which made the nose look natural.
His nose has returned to normal. At the end of his tenure, he returned to London and recorded the whole incident in detail in his diary. It was presented in the British Parliament. Some British doctors were sent to this Indian doctor and recommended to learn surgery. Colonel Coote’s recommendation was accepted. Some young Englishmen came to India and learned this method of medicine. Today plastic surgery is discussed all over the world. People who consider themselves ugly or unattractive become beautiful with the help of plastic surgery.
Sushruta
Sushruta was a famous astrologer and mathematician of ancient India. Despite being a royal dynasty, he became a ‘Brahmin’. India’s Ayurveda science is first class in the medical field in the world, foreigners used to come to India to learn Ayurveda and anatomy in the Takshila and Nalanda universities of India.
The standard book he composed by giving the first knowledge of surgery to the whole world, was also called ‘Sushruta Shalyatantra’ or ‘Saushruta Tantra’ by ancient writers. He is considered the father of surgery.
The book named Sushruta Samhita was written by Vaidya in the sixth century BC. In which details of 1100 diseases and their treatment are given. It has a complete section on plastic surgery.
This English word comes from the original Greek word plastic. Plastic means making a mold of something.
History:
It is worth noting that the Association of Plastic Surgery
Surgeons in
The then President of Diana, Dr. S. Raja Satpathy first came up with the idea of celebrating National Plastic Surgery Day in the year 2011 to spread awareness about plastic surgery. But for the first time National Plastic Surgery Day was celebrated on 15 July 2021. After this, in the year 2022, July 15 was recognized as World Plastic Surgery Day all over the world and it was also decided to celebrate World Plastic Surgery Day on 15 July every year.
Sushruta Samhita of 600 BC describes surgical instruments and surgical techniques. Charaka, Vagbhata have described plastic surgical procedures in even more detail than the procedures given in Sushruta Samhita. Ancient Indian medical texts and mythology include plastic surgical procedures such as rhinoplasty, otoplasty, tissue transplantation, organ transplantation, embryo transfer, head cross-grafting and organ reconnection.
This golden age of Hindu surgery gradually declined from the time of Buddha (562-472 B.C.). The Buddhist scripture Mahavagga Jataka strictly prohibits creation of rhinoplasty. Because contact with blood and pus was considered polluting. Therefore, great surgical skills were assigned to castes like ‘kumara’ or potters.
Ancient Indian medical knowledge was disseminated to Greece and Arabia by Buddhist missionaries. German, French and English surgeons were introduced to the old Indian system. During that period, some German scholars studied the original text in Sanskrit, British surgeons and French travellers, who themselves witnessed rhinoplasty operations in India, made the western world aware of the wonders and practical possibilities of this specialty.
However, the invention of anaesthesia (Morton, Long and Wells) and anti-sepsis (Lord Lister) revolutionised the practice of surgery and made it painless and infection free.
Modern plastic surgery in India started after the Second World War. While serving as “temporary commissioned officers” with the armed forces, Dr. C. Balakrishnan and Dr. R.N. Sinha specialised in plastic surgery. While Major Sukh was in plastic surgery at the Armed Forces Medical College and Hospital, Pune.
The first independent department of plastic surgery in the country was eventually set up in 1958 at M.C. Hospital in Nagpur. India to perform 1 million plastic surgery operations in 2023. (Google translation from Gujarati)
