Word: tagliacozzi
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...restoration was attempted as early as 1597 by the Bolognese surgeon Gaspare Tagliacozzi, who grafted attached flaps of the patient's own skin and thus evaded the body's rejection mechanism more than three centuries before this phenomenon was scientifically understood. Such procedures were declared impious and were forbidden. More recent restoration efforts, using metal ear molds or dead cartilage, have produced poor results in many cases, although silicones have been employed successfully...
...surgeons of old had some success in using part of a man's own arm to rebuild a nose or ear, but as early as 1597, Gasparo Tagliacozzi of Bologna wrote with great insight that "the singular character of the individual entirely dissuades us from attempting this work in another person, for such is the force and power of individuality." Three centuries later, Charles Claude Guthrie and Alexis Carrel learned the wisdom of this judgment. With great virtuosity, they proved that organ grafts between animals were surgically possible. Guthrie even succeeded in grafting a second head onto...
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