Sushruta, Father of Plastic Surgery

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Sushruta’s Compendium is one of the foundational texts of Ayurveda, India’s traditional system of medicine. He’s also known as the father of plastic surgery, and was writing about medicine and surgery at least 200 years before Hippocrates.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from Howstupworks.com.
0:36.1	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.6	I'm Tracy V. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry.
0:47.7	Over the holidays this winter, I noticed a tweet from friend of the podcast
0:52.8	in past guest, Mary Robinette Colle, in which she asked herself this question.
0:58.2	I wonder if I can reference plastic surgery in the 1960s.
1:01.8	How early did it start?
1:03.1	World War One, right?
1:05.0	And then the tweet goes on to express her total astonishment that it was actually much,
1:09.6	much earlier than that.
1:11.3	I was astonished to learn that also.
1:13.7	And I meant to make a note of that as something to look into when I got back into the office.
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