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TALIACOFIUS

Volume 18 · 81 words · 1797 Edition

(Gafpar), chief surgeon to the great duke of Tuscany, was born at Bologna 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; though 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.