Today, he’s known as “Wound Man”, but once upon a time this illustration was just one part of a standard medical or surgical text book. You’d get your basic illustrations of anatomy. Then you’d get your Wound Man, to show you all the different, awful things that could happen to that anatomy. A 2009 blog
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An atlas of horrible things that could happen to you in the 15th century
An atlas of horrible things that could happen to you in the 15th century
