[Rarebooks] fa: PLASTIC SURGERY 1794 - FIRST ACCOUNT OF HINDU RHINOPLASTY in The Gentleman's Magazine

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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCXCIV [1794]. Volume LXIV [64]. Part the Second. London: Printed by John Nichols, 1794. Six monthly issues (July-December) plus the Supplement for the Year 1794. Thick 8vo bound in early half calf and marbled boards; p. [543]-1212, [16] (686 pp. total); with 21 engraved plates and numerous in-text woodcut illustrations and diagrams. Binding bumped and worn at the corners, spine flaking and cracking; intermittent browning, spotting and offsetting to the text and plates, otherwise the contents are generally clean.

Of special importance in this issue is an article entitled "Curious Chirurgical Operation", the first published Western account of the forehead-flap method of RHINOPLASTY practiced in India, accompanied by an engraved plate of the patient, Cowasjee, "a bullock-driver with the English army in the war of 1792, [who] was made a prisoner by Tippoo, who cut off his nose and one of his hands… For above 12 months he remained without a nose, when he had a new one put on by a man of the Brickmaker cast, near Poonah…" This account in The Gentleman's Magazine, and the widely reproduced plate illustrating the stages of the operation, sparked widespread European interest in plastic surgery, culminating in Joseph Carpue's successful replication of the procedure twenty years later in England.

With other ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES on: the FRENCH TELEGRAPH ("Explanation of the Machine (Telegraphe) placed on the Mountain of Bellville near Paris, for the Purpose of communicating Intelligence", plus additional articles on the "Invention of the Telegraphe" and "Proposals for Improvements to the Telegraph," the latter accompanied by a woodcut illustration); DOVEDALE ("Dove-Dale"), with two separate plates of views; the OLD CATHEDRAL at ABERDEEN; OLIVER CROMWELL'S HOUSE in Clerkenwell; etc. Also included is extensive coverage of the FRENCH REVOLUTION ("Proceedings of the National Convention", etc.); a letter from BENJAMIN FRANKLIN to the Earl of Buchan; plus parliamentary proceedings, obituaries, births, promotions, etc., etc.