1891

First recorded cosmetic surgery, performed by John Roe (Rochester, NY), who described correction of angular deformities of nose via subcutaneous (endonasal) operation; then in 1892, Weir described reshaping a (sunken) nose (= “pollybeak” deformity) in a number of stages that = “summation of the steps used in the modern procedure for nasal reshaping” (Bennett, 155). Finally, in 1898, Jacques Joseph (Berlin) introduces modern rhinoplasty with publication of Surgical Correction of the Nose. Despite Roe’s priority (many endonasal procedures prior to Joseph’s first external procedure), “Joseph may well deserve the designation “father of rhinoplasty’. . . . The rhinoplasty surgical armamentarium today includes many instruments originally designed by Joseph” (Crumley, 12)