TALIACTIUS (Gaspar), chief surgeon to the great duke of Tuscany, was born at Bononia in Italy in 1553. He wrote a Latin treatise intitled Chirurgia nota de curtis membris, in which he teaches the art of engrafting noses, ears, lips, &c. giving representations of the instruments and proper bandages; tho' many are of opinion that he never put his art in practice. However, his doctrine is not singular; for he shows that Alexander Benedictus, a famous chirurgical writer, described the operation before.