Wound man

This image of the Wound man is taken from the Library's copy of Feldtbuch der Wundartzney, by Hans von Gersdorff. Our copy was published in Strassbourg in 1540 although the first edition was published in 1517. Feldtbuch der Wundartzney is a medical text written for military surgeons. Along with illustrations of amputations, trepanning, cauterizing and palmistry we find the image of the Wound man which illustrates the various wounds suffered in battle or in accidents. The original woodcut was possibly drawn by Johannes de Ketham who published the first printed medical text Fasciculus Medicinae in 1491.
Hannibal Lecter, in the novel Red Dragon, uses the illlustration of the Wound man as a model for the arrangement of the body of his sixth victim.
From the call number, MRB/ Q617.99/ G (16th Century), you can see that this item is from David Scott Mitchell's original bequest and doesn't quite fit that obsession with Australian History.