You unlock this door with the key of imagination.

Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound,

a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind.

You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance

of things and ideas.

You've just crossed over into the twilight zone.

If we take a moment to wander down the dim corridors of history,

we find the secrets of a practice that seems very modern,

but actually it's not quite as modern as we think.

The Sushruta Samhita penned around 600 BC.

Within its pages lie a method of reconstructing people's noses using the skin from the cheek or the forehead.

Sushruta, revered as the father of plastic surgery, laid the foundation for what would become

an intricate dance between science and vanity.

The Romans too dabbled in the art of transformation.

Around the first century BC, they wielded simple tools to mend damaged ears.

Their knowledge, however, was borrowed, or more accurately, drawn entirely from the texts of their Greek predecessors.

Sushruta and Chiraka, luminaries of ancient India, explored plastic surgery.

Their works journeyed through time, translated into Arabic in 750 AD.

These translations then found their way to Europe. In Italy, the Branca family,

and Gasparé Tagliacozi are names that are etched in the annals of surgical law. They too embraced

Sushruta's techniques.

And then enter Al-Zarawi, an Arab polymath. His silk-thread sutures wove together beauty

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