The original illustration comes from a wood engraving on the title-page of the first English edition of The Method of Curing Wounds made by Gun-shot published in London in 1617. The only still existing copy of that book is kept in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. A simmilar illustration also called "Wound Man" is on the cover of Hans von Gersdorff's Feldtbuch der Wundartzney (Fieldbook of Wound Surgery) published in Strasbourg in 1530.