The history of rhinoplasty (Greek: rhoiotasigma rhis, nose pilamdaalphasigmasigmaepsiloniotanu plassein, to condition), started in antiquity. Surgical rhinoplasty started in early India and ancient Egypt. In India, it was developed by the ayurvedic doctor Sushruta (c. 800 BC). Nonsurgical [more...]
16th century Surgery Prof. Gasparo Tagliacozzi devised a new eponymous rhinoplasty technique.(Bologna, Italia) In Italy, Gasparo Tagliacozzi (1546-1599), professor of surgery and physiology at the University of Bologna, released Curtorum Chirurgia Per Insitionem (The Operation of Flaws by [more...]
The 19th century breast implants Since the late nineteenth century, breast implants have been used to surgically augment the size (volume), change the shape (contour), and improve the feel (tact) of a girl's breasts. Dr Vincenz Czerny (1842-1916), [more...]
Awareness of penis size is culture-specific. Where a larger or circumcised penis was viewed as comical or grotesque in Ancient Greece Renaissance artwork, a little and uncircumcised penis was culturally seen as desired in a guy. Early Rome [more...]