Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1546-1599) was born Bologna, Italy during the sixteenth century, he was a surgeon of the Renaissance Era. He was the surgeon of choice of many soldiers at his time. He’s operations usually involves in rehabilitating the nose (Rhinoplasty). He’s not the one who pioneered this in fact he even said that the credit should be given to other surgeon or anatomist before his time. He allows Benedict Alexander and Vesalius to get the credits on this practice for what he believes that they were the ones who founded this practice. However, as cited by Chalmers (1812) many doctors/biographers such as Seargent Surgeon Charles Bernard (1710) and J.C. Carpue (1815) credited Tagliacozzi on this practice because of his dexterity and success …show more content…
Tagliacozzi’s contemporaries attested the facts of his work and his fellow citizen had shown some kinds of evidences on his work. Perhaps, other than statue made for him he was made famous by a satirical poet named Samuel Butler that his lines was passed to other biographers and incorporate his story about Tagliacozzi. Such story appeared in Addison and Stelle’s , The Tatler (1797). Butler also incorporated his story in his own book. It was said that a doctor named Zachary Grey includes a story of a Rosicrucian philosopher named Dr. Fludd who encounters one of Tagliacozzi’s patient. The patient was an Italian noble man, Dr. Fludd said that the man had his nose grafted using a sickened slaves arm who eventually died. After the death of the donor, the donated skin graft also appeared to be dead due to the appearance of necrosis in donated tissue. The part of the man’s nose which was donated by the dead man was immediately cut-off by the doctor and was replaced by the patients’ own arm (Butler, 1784). However, it was attested by Lawrence (1830), According to the latter, Tagliacozzi did not cut noses from the breech, nor out any part of other individuals’ skin. The picture below shows how Tagliacozzi did his …show more content…
In his practice in rhinoplasty, he was able to graft new tissues for a broken lip, ear or nose using a flap from the patient’s own arm. In restoring a nose, he paired the scarred part of the nose with a flap of an integument from the patients’ arm or forearm. The flap will be sutured so that it will remain in contact with the nose. The patients’ forearm will be fixed to the head using cloth or bandage. The attached integument will not be separated until an adhesion of the flapped skin and natural skin of the face was accomplished. The skin would be removed from the arm and would remain engrafted to the face. Taliacozzi then stated that this artificially made nose smelt more than the normal lose and this new nose was also stronger compared to the replaced one (Lawrence,