"DIY Organ Removal, Pain, and Bloody Miracles: The " Topic
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Tango01  | 04 Jan 2019 9:02 p.m. PST |
….Grisly World of First Surgeries "The Wound Man (or Man of Wounds, depending on how you translate it in Fasciculus medicinae, the 1491 medical treatise in which his image first appears) is one of the most well-known medieval surgical diagrams going. It's up there with da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (né 1490) but is far less aesthetically pleasing than what everyone's favorite Renaissance Man had cooked up. Rather, the Wound Man—his poor mangled body decorated with bites and pustules, smashed by rocks, and pierced with various deadly implements—wears a look of serene resignation that belies the myriad violent indignities that have been visited upon him…." Main page
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Amicalement
Armand
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 Grelber | 05 Jan 2019 9:32 a.m. PST |
Very cool article, Armand! I may have to look up the book, though not, I think, just prior to going into surgery myself! Grelber |
| Tango01 | 05 Jan 2019 10:47 a.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami! (smile)
Best of luck with that!!… (smile)
Amicalement
Armand
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