title: The first Anglo-Dutch contacts in plastic surgery: a brief historical note.
abstract: This paper outlines briefly the part played by two Dutch surgeons Jan Esser and Carel Koch and their contacts in England in the development of plastic surgery on the Continent and in Great Britain. Photographs and letters from the archives of Jan Esser throw a new light on the early days of the new specialty of plastic and reconstructive surgery.
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009426:Netherlands; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000266:history*; D014956:Writing