Born 4 May 1764; died 30 Jan 1846 at age 81.

Joseph Constantine Carpue was an #English #surgeon and #anatomist who introduced the #Indian method #rhinoplasty, #reconstructing a #nose from a flap of forehead skin.

Having first practiced on several cadavers, Carpue operated at the Duke of York's Hospital, Chelsea, England, on a British military officer who had lost his nose to the toxic effects of mercury treatments for his liver, though his nasal bones were entire (23 Oct 1814), and another whose nose and cheek was mutilated by a sword. These two successful operations mark the first #modern #plasticsurgery.

He published the technique in 1816. However, it had been practiced from ancient times in India.

Gaspar Tagliacotius, a Venetian surgeon had described, in 1598, how nose replacement skin could be grafted from the skin of the shoulder or arm, but the procedure fell into disuse in Italy.

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