Wound Man

Wound Man is an illustration commonly used in medical textbooks.

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The original illustration comes from a wood engraving on the title-page of the first English edition of The Method of Curing Wounds made by Gun-shot published in London in 1617. The only still existing copy of that book is kept in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. A similar illustration also called "Wound Man" is on the cover of Hans von Gersdorff's Feldtbuch der Wundartzney.

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In the novel Red Dragon, the serial killer Dr Hannibal Lecter arranges his sixth victim like the illustration Wound Man. Will Graham realises this and captures Lecter.

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(Fieldbook of Wound Surgery) published in Strasbourg in 1530.

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