Gaspare Tagliacozzi, De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, 1597.
This work, "Concerning the surgery of the mutilated by grafting," is a classic in the history of plastic surgery and is especially noteworthy for its description of rhinoplasty. Rhinoplasty (plastic surgery performed on the nose) had been practiced in ancient India and, in the thirteenth century, by a family of itinerant Sicilian surgeons who kept the operation a family secret. The numerous full-page woodcuts are well-executed and illustrate many of the techniques described in the text.
