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's De decoratione (Frankfurt: 1587), which included an explanation of the procedure from Tagliacozzi. Among these witnesses, I pause on the Plymouth surgeon James Yonge, whose flap amputation technique – as he begrudgingly conceded – shared technical and conceptual ground with Tagliacozzi's use of skin flaps to rebuild the nose, lip, or ear. Distinguishing between the success of Yonge's method and the derogation of Tagliacozzi's can help to show the particular problems faced by surgeons sympathetic to Taliacotian rhinoplasty in early modern Britain. Chirurgorum
posthumously appended, for his attitudes towards plastic surgery techniques and the treatment of stigmatised (especially poxed) patients more broadly. Charles’ brother, Francis, also owned copies of Tagliacozzi's book, and I propose him as the anonymous translator and editor responsible for the inclusion of De curtorum chirurgia in Chirurgorum comes . I also examine the diary and surgical treatises of James Yonge (1647–1721), a Plymouth naval surgeon who publicised the use of a skin flap in amputations, for his strategic differentiation of his procedure from Taliacotian
A number of Hellenic texts on physiognomics were available to medieval and Renaissance European readers: Polemo of Laodicea’s Physiognomics, for example, was translated into Arabic in the early Middle Ages and from there was re-absorbed into European medical literature.58 This was an Arab-mediated physiognomical tradition that reached even Ireland’s medieval English Pale. The Arabic Sirr al-asra-r or Secret of Secrets, translated in Latin as the Secretum Secretorum, was translated into English by the Dublin chancery clerk James Yonge in 1422 for the fourth earl of
decades earlier by the English surgeon James Yonge (1647–1721) in his Currus triumphalis . Yonge’s treatises do not appear to have been translated, printed, or circulated within the Holy Roman Empire in the seventeenth century, and Verduyn’s treatise does not indicate any familiarity with Yonge or his work. 97 Verduyn, Neue Methode , 17–18. 98 Ibid., 16–17. 99 Ibid., 15: “Dan man muß sich wohl vorsehen/ daß man keinen
, see J. Yonge, ed. F. N. L. Poynter, The journal of James Yonge, 1647–1721, Plymouth surgeon (London, 1963), pp. 18–20, 162. DAWSON 9781526134486 PRINT.indd 55 16/04/2019 11:04 56 Bodies complexioned of a person’s character. ‘Temperament’ referenced the same vital mixture but with an implicit emphasis on the humour dominating a person’s existence. So not only did their body bear outward signs of this bias, but their manners, especially instinctive behaviours, also followed a particular bent because their body had once been tempered, permanently cast, in a