Plastic surgery : corrective and palliative repair, in the treatment of malignant disease / by William Seaman Bainbridge, A.M., ScD., M.D., C.M., New York.

  • Bainbridge, William Seaman, 1870-1947
Date:
1915
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Credit: Plastic surgery : corrective and palliative repair, in the treatment of malignant disease / by William Seaman Bainbridge, A.M., ScD., M.D., C.M., New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    both combined, which was being followed just then, or concerning which we wished to make a formal report. This year we come to a consideration of the possibilities of treatment of malignant disease by means of plastic surgery. BRIEF HISTORY OF PLASTIC SURGERY. ^ Anaplasty, restorative or plastic surgery, is not a discovery of modern times. The ancient Hindus, to whom so many wonderful achievements are popular- Fig- I- Fig. I a. Case i. Fig. i.—Tuberculosis of right ala nasi; condition admission to hospital. Fig. la.—Result of plastic operation. upon ly attributed, are credited with having performed plastic operations two thousand years ago. The his¬ tory of the City of Cut Noses perhaps gives the explanation of- the early Hindu response to that necessity which has ever been the mother of inven¬ tion. It is. recorded that a certain Hindu ruler imposed upon the inhabitants of a conquered city the retribu¬ tive punishment inflicted by the cutting off of the nose, only infants and those who played wind instru¬ ments being exempt. This disfiguring punishment