...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...
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