The first report published in Europe on the so-called Indian or Hindu method of rhinoplasty using a forehead flap, accompanied by an engraving of the patient, Cowasjee, with a restored nose and showing the stages of the operation. The article was signed by only "B. L." 

The publication of this procedure was highly unconventional. On March 20, 1794 a copperplate engraving by R. Mabon after James Wales's portrait of Cowasjee was published in Bombay, with images and an engraved text outlining the operation. Only a single copy of that Bombay broadside may have survived. Following publication of the Bombay broadside, news of the procedure was first reported in the Hircarrah of The Madras Gazette of August 4, 1794.
 
A copy of the Bombay broadside must have reached London and the editor of The Gentleman's Magazine, which published the article signed B. L. in October 1794. Authorship of this article has been attributed to Barak Longmate. Following that London periodical publication, a broadside based on the Bombay broadside but with a different version of Wales's portrait of Cowasjee engraved by W. Nutter, was issued on January 1, 1795 with the same text as the 1794 Bombay broadside. Both the 1794 Bombay version of the broadside and the 1795 version of the broadside are excessively rare.

Mukherjee, N.S. et al, "A Nose Lost and Honour Regained: The Indian Method of Rhinoplasty Revisited," Proceedings of the Indian Congress, 72 (2011) 968-977.