{"id":234,"date":"2002-12-21T10:56:45","date_gmt":"2002-12-21T16:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2002\/12\/21\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-2\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T16:12:09","slug":"notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2002\/12\/21\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sixteenth Century Field Surgery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2007\/04\/woundman.jpg\" alt=\"Hans von Gersdorff\u2019s, Feldtbuch der Wunderartzney \" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>Opening Hans von  Gersdorff&#8217;s, <em>Feldtbuch der Wunderartzney<\/em> to this illustration leaves little doubt as to the subject matter at hand. This early, &#8220;Field-book of wound surgery&#8221; is one of the most important works on 16th century surgery. Gersdorff (1455-1529) was a military surgeon whose writings are based primarily on his own experiences in numerous battles, including the Burgundian War of 1476. &#8220;The practical nature of Gersdorff&#8217;s book and its fine illustrations caused it to become very popular and it was frequently referred to, widely quoted, and freely plagiarized&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rbr\/heirs\" target=\"_blank\">Heirs of Hippocrates<\/a>). The woodcut shown here (believed to be the work of Hans Wechtlin, and commonly referred to as the &#8220;wound man&#8221;) depicts the kinds of injuries likely encountered on the battlefield. In addition, each wound marks the site of a possible arterial ligation. The book also includes sections on anatomy, leprosy, and medications. The edition in the John Martin Rare Book Room is from 1530.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about  the John Martin Rare Book Room please visit the Web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rbr\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rbr\/<\/a> or contact Ed Holtum,  Assistant Director for Administrative Services and Special Collections, at  335-9154 or <a href=\"mailto:edwin-holtum@uiowa.edu\">edwin-holtum@uiowa.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteenth Century Field Surgery Opening Hans von Gersdorff&#8217;s, Feldtbuch der Wunderartzney to this illustration leaves little doubt as to the subject matter at hand. This early, &#8220;Field-book of wound surgery&#8221; is one of the most important works on 16th century surgery. Gersdorff (1455-1529) was a military surgeon whose writings are based primarily on his own<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2002\/12\/21\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3929,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/3929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}