Medical Xylography Description Block 50

 

Author: Possibly Brunschwig, Hieronymus (ca. 1450-ca. 1512)

Book: The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri, practysyd [and] compyled by the moost experte mayster Iherome of Bruynswyke, borne in Straesborowe in Almayne  ca. 1525

Notes: This is an early depiction of the "Wound Man," which was meant to represent the many ways someone could be wounded, thereby requiring the treatments prescribed. See Block 6 for an earlier depiction. Brunschwig's book has a woodcut very similar to this one. An example from his book is below:

Here is a copy of the print thought to be from 1497. Note how it was clear that this print was made from two separate woodcuts!

 

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