Historical look at breast surgery which has been around for years.
The popularity and acceptance of breast enlargement surgery has become more popular and less socially restrictive in the last 20 years. What many people do not realize is just how far the breast enlargement surgery has come and how long surgeons and scientists have been working on this delicate matter. The first doctor to began the idea of transforming women’s breasts in 1895. His name was Dr. Vincenz Czerny. His goal was to invent a way of reshaping women and to give them a fuller and larger breast. Around this time in American History, you see a large immigrant pool to the United States and the growth of urban areas. With this growth, more and more people began to live in close proximity to one another. With this proximity came the unique situation of people watching other people at close range.
The society became more dependent on social functions such as church, banquets, and schools. This is when Americans began the search for ways to begin to change their bodies to fit what societal or personal norms might be. Dr. Vincenz Czerny’s first experimentations were by taking the patient’s own adipose tissue and transplanted it into the breast. It was not the most successful surgery but it was the most important because it got the ball rolling. Just the fact that the women did not die was important. Most people in the late 1890s were horrified to think that someone would change their breast size just for a personal or social reason.
In this era, religious underpinnings existed and many in religious circles believed that having your body added to, or taken away from, was undoing God’s perfect work. It is important to understand that Dr. Czerny’s work was because the woman had a tumor taken out of her breast and did not elect to get breast enlargement surgery for any other reason. Dr. Czerny realized that there was such a great and pressing need in the field of women’s elective surgery that he dedicated the rest of his life to trying to better and perfect those types of surgeries.