The Edwin Smith Papyrus, dates to around 3000BC and was possibly recopied around 1500BC. Ironically enough, it was named after the Connecticut merchant who bought it
in Egypt in 1862. The same questionable naming process applies to the Kahun Papyrus. Even if we used the later date of 1500BC, that would be about one thousand years before Hippocrates.
Fast forward to between 1000 BCE and 800 BCE and we meet the great South Asian plastic surgeon Sushruta. He is about four centuries ahead of Hippocrates and others.
Guess what! If you are programmed not to acknowledge or admire the genius behind these medical works, you wouldn't.
I am grateful to the following scholars who did:
Whitaker, IS et al. The birth of plastic surgery: The Story of nasal reconstruction from the Edwin Smith Papyrus to the twenty first century.Plast Reconst Surgery. 2007. Jul; 120(1)
Wendy Moore. The Edwin Smith Papyrus. BMJ, 2011
Stiefel,M. et al. The Edwin Smith Papyrus: The Birth of Analytical Thinking in Medicine and Otolaryngology.Laryngoscope. 2006 Feb; 116 (2): 182 -8
Sykes, P.The Edwin Smith Papyrus.
Annals of plastic surgery 2009; 62 (1): 3-4.
The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus: ancient Egyptian medicine
Journal of Family planning and Reproductive Health Care,2011;37 (1)
Champaneira MC et al. Sushruta: Father of plastic surgery.Ann. Plastic Surgery July. 2014.
Mahabir RC et al.: Ahead by a nose. J. Invest Surg.2001.
Anatomy in ancient India: a focus on the Susruta Samhita.
Sorta-Bilajac et al. The nose between ethics and aesthetics: Sushruta's legacy. O Head neck Surgery, 2007
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