RT Journal
T1 GAspare tagliacozzi (1545-1599) plastic surgeon
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1969
FD February 17
VO 207
IS 7
SP 1343
OP 1344
DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03150200109016
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03150200109016
AB Gaspare Tagliacozzi (Gaspar Taliacotius), born in Bologna and professor of anatomy and surgery in the university in its great days, described sound procedures for the plastic repair of facial disfiguration which have persisted into contemporary practice. Although reconstruction of the face and especially the nose had been performed by surgeons since ancient times, Tagliacozzi is credited with perfecting the reparative techniques and with performing them with greater skill than his predecessors. Equally significant was the preparation of his De Curtorum Chirurgia per Insitionem (The Surgery of Deformities by Transplantation), the first treatise devoted exclusively to the theory and practice of the art.1 The monograph contained descriptions of his surgical management including the trivia, and was illustrated with woodcuts made under the direction of the author.Although Tagliacozzi's reputation has persisted through the centuries, valid biographic data remained unassembled until the appearance in 1950 of an excellent and exhaustive study