Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: nasal reconstructions

  • The times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi, founder of plastic surgery

    In his essay on Giovanni Battista Cortesi, recently reviewed in this Journal, Dr. Paolo Savoia refers to other surgeons who achieved prominence in sixteenth-century Italy. In medicine, as in the arts, progress had been abetted by an influx of Greek scholars from Byzantium after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. In Western Europe,…