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Is it in 800 AD or 1800 AD. Was it done in Rome? Was it done in India? What was the name of the surgeon?

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Do you mean human transplants or any type? Also, are you looking for only successful ones? Also, are you talking about internal organs, or would skin transplants count? –  American Luke Oct 27 '12 at 21:29
in human ,successful operation and any part of the body,skin or whatever. –  md nth Oct 27 '12 at 21:35

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Pre-19th century transplants are not well documented. The first possibly real human transplant was in India. It is unknown if it was successful or not:


The first transplants known to be successful occurred in the 16th century:

Centuries later, the Italian surgeon Gasparo Tagliacozzi [1546 – 1599] performed successful skin autografts.

However, those were transplants from one part of the body to another in the same individual

The first between two individuals was in the 20th century:

In 1905, Eduard Zirm conducted the first successful transplant between two individuals. He transplanted the corneas of an 11-year-old boy into a Czech day laborer. That was the first successful human transplant between two individuals that has been verified.

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Note that until the late 1800's, the importance of hand-washing to prevent infections was not widely accepted. Trying to perform a transplant of an internal organ before then would have resulted in so many secondary infections that I can't see it ever having much hope of saving the patient. –  T.E.D. Oct 29 '12 at 18:18
True, but that wasn't the point of the question. –  American Luke Oct 29 '12 at 18:23
...which is why I didn't make it an answer. However, I think it backs up the timing you gave here, so I thought it might be helpful. –  T.E.D. Oct 29 '12 at 18:25

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