History of plastic surgery. Part 1

As an example, leading on the TV must have an attractive appearance. And examples of such professions appeared not ten, not twenty years ago. The need for excellent appearance appeared in past millennia, and were made the first attempts at artificial inoculation appearance. People have always sought to improve its appearance. For example, in Ancient Egypt, physicians have already tried, sometimes successfully, conduct operations on his nose, so he looked a lot better.
While considerable attention was paid to the seams. Ideally, they should not have been visible at all – for this skin smeared with a special melted fats, to ensure the smoothness of the plastic instruments of that time. For conservation of natural forms, the nasal insert special wads of linen cloth. Then, similar experiments were carried out in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
In India the 6th century BC were the first experiments with transplantation – local healers were transplanted skin from different body parts on the face to correct defects of the nose. Sometimes used someone else’s skin, cut from prisoners of enemies and criminals. Such cruel ways was the ancient plastic surgery.
The Chinese also actively experimenting with their appearance. One of the Chinese doctors in the 5th century BC conducted workshops surgery on the ears and the eyes, however, have survived only a few documents about how precisely did surgery this wizard. Evidence of success has been preserved much more.