Gasparo Tagliacozzi
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Gasparo Tagliacozzi (1546–November 7, 1599), an Italian surgeon, was born in Bologna.
He studied at the University of Bologna under Jerome Cardan, taking his degree in philosophy and medicine at the age of twenty-four. He was appointed professor of surgery and afterwards of anatomy, and achieved notoriety at least, and the fame of a wonder-worker. He died at Bologna on the 7th of November, 1599.
His principal work is entitled De Curtorum Chirurgia per Insitionem Libri Duo (Venice, 1597, fol.,; it was reprinted in the following year under the title of Chirurgia Nova de Narium, Aurium, Labior-umque Defectu per Insitionem Cutis ex Humero, arte hactenus omnibus ignota, sarciendo (Frankfort, 1598, 8vo).
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