The "Wound Man"

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The "Wound Man" on the title-page of the 1952 edition of The Apologie and Treatiste of Ambroise Paré is a reduced reproduction of the wood engraving on the title-page of the first English edition of The Method of Curing Wounds made by Gun-shot, London, 1617. The only extant copy is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the Publishers are indebted to Bodley's Librarian for a photograph. (courtesey of the University of Chicago, publishers of the Apologie)

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