Gibson highlights that Paula Zacchias (1584–1659), poet, painter, and personal physician to Pope Innocent X and founder of forensic medicine, in his treatise on miracles, concluded that if the ear was completely amputated before replantation it was a miracle of the First Order (one that could only occur supernaturally). While all the evangelists record the injury, only Luke mentions total severance and the miraculous healing. As the Roman soldiers were arresting Christ accompanied by his apostles, a commotion ensued and “one of them smote the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear….and he (Christ) touched his ear and healed him.” In his fascinating and erudite article on early free grafting, Thomas Gibson refers to the Biblical debate regarding this incident. Despite this, the history of reattachment of parts has a strong religious association, and the first recorded case is fittingly in the Gospel of St.
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