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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    Calabrise, speaks of Vincent Vianeus, also called Vioneus, Boi- anus, and Boiani, a physician and surgeon of Tropea, as prac- tising a cure for defective lips and noses. Vincent Vianeus com- municated his method to his nephew Bernard, and Bernard to his son Peter ; and, for a time, all the Boianis were successively distinguished hy it in Tropea. Peter, the third of the Boianis, died in 1571; and John-Baptist Cortesi, in passing through their city in 1599, found no person of the family exercising the art.^ Alexander Benedictus, a native of Legnago, in the territory of Verona, and who taught medicine at Padua for some time before the year 1495, is the earliest medical writer extant, who, since the revival of letters, has mentioned this operation of sur- gery : In our time,” says that author, skilful persons have taught us how to rectify deformities of the nose. Portions of “ flesh, cut from the arm of the patient, formed into the sliape of nostrils, and added to the trunk of the nose, are very commonly seen. They dissect the upper skin of the arm ‘‘ with a razor; and, then, paring off the remaining edges of the nostrils, or, if necessary, cutting them away, they hind “ the arm to the head, in order that wound may adhere to “ wound. After this, the wounds having conglutinated, they take away from the arm, with the knife, as much as is wanted “ for the restoration of the nose, which they accomplish; for “ the kindred vessels of the nose nourish the flesh which is newly B 2 acquired, * Dictionnaire de la Medecine, Art, Taliacotius, Coktesi, and Vianeus.