History of Medicine: The Story of Wound Man - From Textbook to Emblem and Hollywood

James Thomas
4 min readMar 20, 2019

If you think you’re having a bad day just remember The Wound Man. Stabbed, bludgeoned and shot yet still standing tall it’s safe to say that his image has been on a journey over more than half a millennium to becoming truly iconic. This journey has taken him from the pages of a medieval textbook to Hollywood via James Bond and the Royal College of…

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