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Gaspare Tagliacozzi

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The Cabinet June 27, 2026 · University of Bologna

The Bolognese Surgeon Who Built New Noses Out of Upper-Arm Skin in 1597

Gaspare Tagliacozzi's *De Curtorum Chirurgia per Insitionem* (1597) described the first systematic European reconstructive surgical technique for nose loss — using a substantial skin flap rotated from the patient's upper arm. The technique required the patient to keep the arm strapped to the face for several weeks while the graft established blood supply.

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The Cabinet June 25, 2026 · Uraniborg, Hven

The Renaissance Craft Tradition That Made Tycho Brahe's Replacement Nose and a Thousand Other Lost Faces

Tycho Brahe wore a metal prosthetic nose for the entire adult portion of his life after losing the original to a student duel in 1566. The Renaissance prosthetics tradition that produced his nose was a substantial European craft specialism that survived from the 15th to the 19th century before being substantively replaced by 20th-century plastic surgery.

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