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TAGLIOCOZZI (GASPARE) De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni the younger, 1597
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TAGLIOCOZZI (GASPARE)
Footnotes
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WORK DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY. "We restore, repair, and make whole those parts... which fortune has taken away, not so much that they may delight the eye, but that they may buoy up the spirit and help the mind of the afflicted" (Tagliacozzi in the English edition of the present work, entitled On the Surgery of Mutilation by Grafting, 1597).
Gasparo Tagliacozzi (1545-1599) was professor of surgery and later of anatomy at Bologna University, and also worked in the 'Hospital of Death', run by the 'Brotherhood of Death'. It was his job was to visit prisons and comfort those condemned to death, and he was also able to procure the bodies of executed prisoners for use in dissections.This led him to develop the so-called "Italian method" of nasal reconstruction.
Provenance; "H.H.M.B.C." ink initials on both titles.
