An account of two successful operations for restoring a lost nose from the integuments of the forehead in the cases of two officers of His Majesty's Army; to which are prefixed historical and physiological remarks on the nasal operation; including descriptions of the Indian and Italian methods / [J.C. Carpue].

  • Carpue, J. C. (Joseph Constantine), 1764-1846
Date:
1816
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Credit: An account of two successful operations for restoring a lost nose from the integuments of the forehead in the cases of two officers of His Majesty's Army; to which are prefixed historical and physiological remarks on the nasal operation; including descriptions of the Indian and Italian methods / [J.C. Carpue]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Elysius Calentius, a Neapolitan poet of the fifteenth century, tutor to Frederic, son of Frederic II of Naples, writing to one Orpianus, who had lost his nose, invites him, in the letter subjoined, to come to Naples, with the view of applying himself to Branca : “ Orpianus,” says the writer, if you would have your nose restored, come to me. Truly, the thing is won- “ derful. Branca, a Sicilian, a man of great abilities, has “ learned the art of restoring a nose, either by supplying it “ from the arm of the patient, or by infixing upon the part the nose of a slave. Having seen this, I determined on writing to you, to whom no news can be more interesting. Be as- sured, that if you come, you may go home again with as much “ nose as you please.”*' Calentius died about the year 1503.j' Gabriel Barri, in his book, entitled, De Antiquitate et Situ ^ Calabrise, * '' Orpiane, si tibi nasum restitui vis, ad me veni. Profecto res est apud homines “ mira. Bianca Siculus, ingenio vir egregid, didicit nares inserere, quas vel de brachio re- ficit, vel de servis mutatas impingit. Hoc ubi vidi, decrevi ad te scribere, nihil existimans '' charius esse posse. Quod si veneris, scito te domum cum grandi quantum vis naso “ redituruni volas.’’—Gourmelenus, Chirurgicae Artis, Parisiis, 1580,12mo. lib. 1. p. 73. t His Works, in prose and verse,’were printed at Rome, in 1503. His poem, entitled. The Battle of the Rats and Frogs, in imitation of Homer, was written in seven days, in his eighteenth or nineteenth year. It was reprinted at Rouen, 1738. There have been several editions of his Works. His Epistles were published, in a collection of select epistles, by Gilbertus Cognatus, and printed by Oporinus, in 1558. He was contemporary and familiar with Sannazarius and Jovius Pontanus, by which latter he is mentioned, as also by Lilius Gyraldus, author of a Histoiy of Modern Poets, who tells us, that he was poor, love- “ sick, and a poet j” and that he was born at Amphracta, in Apulia, but lived generally at Naples.—See the Nouveau Dictionnaire Historique, by MM. Chaudon and Delandine, 8vo. Lyon, 1804 ; and Wotton’s Ancient and Modern Learning.