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TitleA singular operation: Cowasjee

DescriptionEngraved print of Cowasjee, an Indian man who had his nose reconstructed using skin flaps from the cheek or forehead. Stipple engraving by W. Nutter, 1795, after J. Wales. Cowsajee was a; 'a Mahratta of the cast[e] of husbandmen', and a bullock driver for the British army in the Third Anglo-Mysore War; in 1792 he was taken prisoner by Tipu Sultan and had his nose and hand cut off; a new nose was constructed for him 12 months later by a Mahratta surgeon near Poone, using a skin graft from the forehead. In 1794 The Gentleman’s Magazine published details of Cowasjee's surgical operation which was long established in India but unknown in Europe. Reports of Cowsajee's operation inspired British surgeon, Joseph Constantine Carpue (1764-1846) who performed the first nasal reconstuctive plastic surgery operation in Britain.

Production date 1794 - 1794

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