Leonardo Fioravanti, Italian Surgeon
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Leonardo Fioravanti, Italian Surgeon
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Leonardo Fioravanti (1517-1588) barber-surgeon who influenced the development of reconstructive surgery. Surgery in the Middle Ages was practiced by individuals belonging to the guild of barbers, with no basic medical education. The transformation into a scientific branch of medicine began in the sixteenth century. A major role was played by Fioravanti, a doctor of Medicine from Bologna. On the way back from one of the last Crusades, he visited the Vianeos brothers in Calabria and was taught a technique for reconstructing the nose practiced only by barber-surgeons based on the Indian method, but changed by Antonio Braca. Instead of taking skin from the forehead Braca took skin from the forearm. It created less scarring, but his method required the forearm to be attached to the nose for 20 days. He published his experience in a book that may have inspired, Gaspare Tagliacozzi. Tagliacozzi understood the value of the method described by Fioravanti and transformed and refined a barber-surgery procedure into a technique he named, the pedicled flap, the first step toward the development of modern plastic surgery.
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