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This portrait and the description titled 'A Singular Operation' was published in The Gentleman's Magazine in London in October 1794.
This portrait and the description titled 'A Singular Operation' was published in The Gentleman's Magazine in London in October 1794.
The name of the person in this magazine report is Cowasjee, a Parsi bullock cart driver who was employed with the British East India Company during the Anglo-Mysore War of 1792. This report particularly finds importance because it was documented after he successfully underwent a
complex nose surgery at Poona by a Maratha surgeon named Kumar. It is notable that after this unique surgical procedure, which was not till then known to the west and Europe, Cowasjee got back his lost nose.
Now how on earth did he lose his nose in the first instance? ...
Now how on earth did he lose his nose in the first instance? ...
