The “Wound Man” is a recurring figure in late-medieval surgical manuscripts: a single stoic body shown pierced, clubbed, bitten, and afflicted by every injury and disease a doctor might encounter, each wound keyed to the passage explaining its treatment. It’s a diagram, a memento mori, and an index all at once — an emergency-medicine cheat sheet drawn 500 years before the term existed. The Public Domain Review traces how the same startling image traveled across centuries of medical books.