Wound Man
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Wound Man is an illustration commonly used in medical textbooks.
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.
In the novel Red Dragon, the serial killer Hannibal Lecter arranges his sixth victim like the illustration Wound Man. The book's protagonist, Will Graham, realises this and captures Lecter.
(Fieldbook of Wound Surgery) published in Strasbourg in 1530.