In the history of medicine, Gasparo Tagliacozzi is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Gasparo Tagliacozzi as Italian surgeon.
Gasparo Tagliacozzi was born at Tagliacozzo in 1545.
Dissection returned in this period and overturned inherited anatomy, which had been copied without checking for centuries.
His posts were held at University of Bologna.
The recorded fields of work are surgery.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Gasparo Tagliacozzi died in 1599, aged 54. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Bologna
- Fields: surgery
