Gasparo Tagliacozzi
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Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1546 – 7 November 1599) was an Italian surgeon.
Tagliacozzi was born in Bologna. He studied at the University of Bologna under Gerolamo Cardano and others, and, at the age of twenty-four, earned his degree in philosophy and medicine. First he was appointed professor of surgery and later was appointed professor of anatomy. He became notorious in his field and is considered the father of Plastic Surgery. He continued the work of the sicilian Surgeon Gustavo Branca and his son Antonio (who lived in Catania in the 15th century), developing the so called "italian method" of plastic surgery which was radically different from the "Indian method" described in other texts, being much more practical. Tagliacozzi died at Bologna in 1599.
His principal work is entitled De Curtorum Chirurgia per Insitionem (1597).
Most people now agree that Sushurata, the Indian doctor who lived in 800 BC is the original father of plastic surgery. Sushruta Samhita, originally in Sanskrit, was translated into Arabic in the 8th century and then traveled further to Italy.[1]
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- ^ Lock etc., page 607
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Jerome Pierce Webster, Martha Teach Gnudi - Documenti inediti intorno alla vita di Gaspare Tagliacozzi in Studi e memorie per la storia dell'Università di Bologna, 1935
- Pietro Capparoni, Profili bio-bibliografici di medici e naturalisti celebri Italiani, dal sec. XV al secolo XVIII, volume 1, Istituto nazionale medico farmacologico "Serono", 1926
- Alfonso Corradi, Dell'antica autoplastica Italiana in Memorie del Regio Istituto lombardo di scienze e lettere. Classe di scienze matematiche e naturali, volume 13, Milano, 1875
- Sulla restituzione del naso - rapporto del Cavaliere Alberto De Schomberg, Giornale Arcadico di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Tomo VI, aprile - maggio - giugno 1820
- Ambrogio Bertrandi, Opere anatomiche e cerusiche - con note e supplementi dei chirurghi G. A. Penchienati e G. Brugnone, Tomo III, Torino, 1787
- Gaspare Tagliacozzi, De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, Venezia, 1597 [1]
