Plastic Surgery
, late eighteenth century advances
use of skin flap (free flap) described; Chopart performed lip reconstruction using a neck flap (1791) In 1818, J.C. Carpue (Britain) reconstructs nose of an army officer using a flap of skin from the forehead (the “Indian Rhinoplasty” based on 1794 account Carpue read in Gentleman’s Magazine (Bennett, 152-3).