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Wound man

About This Item

Title

Wound man

Subject

Wounds and Injuries
Weapons
Book Illustrations

Description

Artist unknown.
A man covered with wounds from a wide variety of weapons, including knives, swords, clubs and arrows. The text surrounding the figure briefly explains how to treat the wounds.
Title taken from commentary by Sudhoff in facsimile edition: Fasciculus medicinae of Johannes de Ketham, Alemanus (Birmingham, Ala. : The Classics of Medicine Library, 1988).

Source

Fasciculus Medicinae was a collection medical treatises first printed in 1491, although it previously circulated in manuscript. The work is noted for its illustrations, which were among the first anatomical illustrations to be printed. The text was issued thereafter in several new editions that included new illustrations, with this extremely rare 1516 edition from Milan based on a 1509 forgery of the 1493 Venetian edition.

Publisher

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Date

1516

Language

ita

Type

StillImage

Identifier

ZAe_19b.b2va
ZAe_19b.b2vb

Original Format

1 print : woodcut

Physical Dimensions

29 x 19 cm

Citation

“Wound man,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 25, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2246.