Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c14.18

c14.18

§ 85. Otoplasty, Rhinoplasty, Cheiloplasty :— Manu 8.125 mentions the ears and nose among the parts of the body on which punishments are to be executed. Cutting of nose was the usual punishment for adultery. Such judicial demolitions may perhaps be looked upon as the chief cause for the introduction of Indian surgery in relation to the treatment of cut off ears and nose. If one is deprived of the lobe of the ear, an expert surgeon should cut from his cheek a piece of living skin in such a way that it remains connected with the cheek