[Probing the origin of plastic surgery and its early development in China].

The modern plastic surgery, accompanied with western medical science, was transmitted to our country by missionary since the opium war (1840). By looking into the medical journal, literature materials published before 1949, it may be confirmed that the department of plastic surgery first appeared in 1934 and was established by Dr. Ni Bao - Chun. At the same time, this author found 27 papers totally belong to plastic surgery in that historical stage and the contents of these papers would basically reflected the scientific level during that period. It might be considered that by then the plastic surgery in our country is in a primative period.