By Holly Tucker
For your viewing pleasure: a classic illustration from Gaspare Tagiacozzi’s De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem (1597, book 2).
Tagliacozzi shows autografting–grafts using the patient’s own skin. In addition to the ravages of syphilis, nose jobs were needed to repair injuries in battle, but also after duels.
The question that I always get is: Did they [...]
