Thread by @sabareeshpa

3 minute excerpt from the book #A_Brief_History_Of_Science_In_India :

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? ...

Cowasjee’s nose was cut-off after being captured as a prisoner of war by Tipu Sultan of Mysore and then let off during the Anglo-Mysore War of 1792. Cowasjee lived as a pensioner of the British East India Company and remained without a nose for some time ..

until he was given a 'nose job' by Kumar of Poona on the basis of Susrutasamhita.

This surgery was in particular witnessed by two British medical officers, Thomas Cruso and James Findlay, of the Bombay Presidency and elaborately documented as being successful and secure, ..

wherein the new nose could perform like the regular one after the surgery. The documented surgical procedure was first published in the Madras Gazette in 1793 by Colly Lyon Lucas, chief surgeon & member of the Medical Board at Madras.This was later reproduced in The Gentleman’s

Magazine in London in October 1794 with a mention of this particular surgical technique of a nose job earlier unknown to Europe.

This surgical procedure performed by Kumar on Cowasjee is today known as Rhinoplasty in modern medicine.

Read more about the history of Indian..

science and achievements at
#A_Brief_History_Of_Science_In_India which is now available for purchase at Amazon:
amazon.in/dp/1942426984/…