Wound Man
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Wound Man is an illustration which first appeared in European surgical texts in the Middle Ages. It laid out schematically the various wounds a person might suffer in battle or in accidents, often with surrounding or accompanying text stating treatments for the various injuries. It first[citation needed] appeared in print in Johannes de Ketham's Fasciculus Medicinae (Venice, 1492) and was used often in surgical texts throughout the sixteenth century and even into the seventeenth century.
(Probable author Hans von Gersdorff (Fieldbook of Wound Surgery) published in Strasbourg in 1519.)
In the 1980 novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, it is mentioned that Will Graham was tipped off to the fact that Hannibal Lecter was a murderer from this diagram as well as a further reference by the character Clarice Starling in the sequel novel "Hannibal".
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Red Dragon by Thomas Harris Hannibal by Thomas Harris
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