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 appeared in print in Johannes de Ketham's Fasciculus Medicinae

Fasciculus medicinae

Fasciculus Medicinae is a “bundle” of six independent and quite different medieval medical treatises. The collection, which existed only in two manuscripts , was first printed in 1491 in Latin and came out in numerous editions over the next 25 years...

(Venice, 1492) and was used often in surgical texts throughout the sixteenth century and even into the seventeenth century.

(Probable author Hans von Gersdorff

Hans von Gersdorff (surgeon)

Hans von Gersdorff also known as Schyl-Hans, Hans von Gersdorff also known as Schyl-Hans, Hans von Gersdorff also known as Schyl-Hans, (* approx. 1455; † 1529 in Straßburg was an exceptional surgeon of his time. He published in 1519 the Feldbuch der Wundarzney (Field book of surgery) illustrated...

 (Fieldbook of Wound Surgery) published in Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

 in 1519.)

In the 1980 novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris is an American author and screenwriter, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter...

, it is mentioned that Will Graham

Will Graham

Will Graham is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Thomas Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon. He is an FBI profiler responsible for the original capture of the serial killer Hannibal Lecter and the man who is assigned to locate killer Francis Dolarhyde.Although successful, Graham is...

 was tipped off to the fact that Hannibal Lecter

Hannibal Lecter

Hannibal Lecter M.D. is a fictional character in a series of horror novels by Thomas Harris and in the films adapted from them.Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon as a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer...

was a murderer from this diagram.