De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem

De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem

Tagliacozzi, Gaspare, 1545-1599

Engravings (prints)

Surgery, plastic

This landmark text—the first work devoted to plastic surgery and reconstruction—was produced by Gaspare Tagliacozzi, a professor of anatomy and surgery at Bologna. The De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem (“On the surgical restoration of defects by grafting”) describes the theory and practice of operations to repair the nose, lips, and ears using skin grafts taken from the upper arm of the patient.

Selection of four engravings from Gaspare Tagliacozzi's 1597 De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem

Tagliacozzi, Gaspare, 1545-1599

Apud Gasparem Bindonum iuniorem

1597

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Margaret and J. J. Longacre Memorial Library of Plastic Surgery, in the Boston Medical Library (f RD118.T12 c.2)

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4 engravings

still image

DigID0002845-48

Bequest of Jacob James Longacre, M.D., to the Boston Medical Library, 1977