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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    ration of the ears and lips, and quotes Celsus, Rhases, Guido, Fuchsius, Tagautius, and others. Stephen Gourmelen, a native of Lower Britanny, and the ad- versary of Par^, in his Chirurgicse Artis, printed in 1580, produces, probably from the collection of Cognatus, the letter of Galen- tius to Orpianus, as a testimony, that the restoration of the nose is practicable, and no fable. He particularly repeats that asser- tion in Calentius’s letter, which the subsequent history of the nasal operation will be found to render so remarkable, namely, J that the nose was sometimes formed or refitted ‘‘ from the nose “ of a slave ‘‘ Ad iTTd'yu'ynv/’ says Gourmelen, referenda est ‘‘ ea chirurgica operatio, qua nasus, aut abscissus, aut a nativi- tate curtus, ex brachii came, aut ex servi naso, reficitur: “ namque hoc fieri posse, fabulosum non est.” * Gourmelen is less faithful to his author, where he changes the expression, “ de ‘‘ hrachioy of the arm,” to ex hrachii came, from the flesh of the arm; ” but several writers on this subject use the words, “ caro ” and cutis ” indifferently, and, perhaps, Gourmelen does the same. John Schenck, of Graffenberg, a physician who practised at Friburg, adds his authority on the practice and method of restoring deficient lips, ears, and noses. His first work, De- Capite Humano, was printed at BMe, in 1584. Alexander Benedictus is not known to have long survived the year 1511, the date of the great earthquake in Italy, of which mention * Gourmelen, Cliirurgicae Artis, lib. 1. Parisiis, 1580.