Since ancient times, In India Hindus have always known that the “Father of Surgery ” is Sushruta, an ancient Hindu physician who performed cosmetic and reconstructive surgery a thousand years ago. Now it appears to be the main content in academics.
In medicine series history, the Columbia University Irving Medicine Center confirmed that cosmetic surgery starts again after 2500 years.
In this article we say, the Father of Surgery – wrote one of the world’s earliest works on medicine and surgery or called Sushruta by an Indian physician during the 6 century BCE. The documented Sushruta Samhita contains all the information regarding the use of hundreds of medicinal plants, and instructions for more than 1100 diseases or surgical procedures including three types of skin grafts and reconstruction of the nose.
This article also tells you about the first written record of a forehead flap rhinoplasty, a technique where a full-thickness piece of skin from the forehead is used to reconstruct a nose. This article will treatise you about the Sushruta Samhita documented the aetiology of more than 1100 diseases, the use of hundreds of medicinal plants, and instructions for performing a score of surgical procedures -including three types of skin grafts and reconstruction of the nose .”
Hence, the name also features later in the Bower Manuscript and lists Sushruta a son of Vishwa Mitra where the legendary physician is listed as one of the ten sages in the Himalayas. It is a birch bark document dated between the 4th to 6th centuries.