Who wrote the classical reference text on the life story of Tagliacozzi?
Gnudi and Webster. In 1950, Martha Teach Gnudi, an academic, and Jerome Pierce Webster, a plastic surgeon who worked in Italy in WWII, wrote The Life and Times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi, Surgeon of Bologna: 1545-1599. The Herbert Reicher (New York) publication is a fascinating read and includes a documented study of the scientific and cultural life of Bologna in the 16th century.
Published in a 1794 Gentleman’s Magazine, the ‘BL’ letter, which focused on the Indian method of rhinoplasty, drew caustic criticism from:
Zeis. The German surgeon and author of the first plastic surgery textbook, Eduard Zeis stated that the British had occupied India for almost two centuries, but had failed to inform the Western World about the Indian method of nasal reconstruction.
John Bell is famous for his work on:
All of these. Charles Bell wrote about these subjects. He was the brother of the surgeon John Bell.
Who first described the tube pedicle?
Gillies. In WWI, Major Harold Delft Gillies used a tube pedicle to reconstruct the face of able seaman Vicarage at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, in 1917. Unbeknownst to him a Russian ophthalmologist, Vladimir Filatov of Odessa, had used a small tube of skin from the neck to reconstruct the eyelid. This event was published in Russian in 1917. Aymard, a South African surgeon working at Sidcup, claimed to have been the first to use a tube pedicle and wrote up the procedure before Gillies in the Lancet in 1917. In fact, the theatre records show that Gillies did the operation on Vicarage some days before Aymard, who was present at the operation.
Which is the odd one out?
Paré. He designed a prosthesis to replace a missing nose. The others all reconstructed noses.
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