Infection From Being Fingered

"Handbook for wound medieval"

One of the most interesting graphics of ancient medicine is undoubtedly, "Man Wounded ".

"Der Mann verwundete Wound Man "

appeared during the Middle Ages from the monumental work of 1492 published in Venice by Johannes de Ketham, the Fasciculus Medicinae, they represented a man wounded by different weapons in different parts of the body, and proceeded to indicate the various complications that could arise reach each region depending on the type of injury and the various "important parts" of the region -bones, veins, etc .-
Its importance was really important, because in an age where medical training was not formal, other "healers" or surgeons trained in academies, they could get to ignore very specific aspects of body parts, so that the wounded man's hand, were very useful in cooling the knowledge on some limb or know in advance which could be addressed before proceeding to attend a man wounded in battle or injured.
Over time these manuals were specialized and refined, even though we arrived at the surgery notes battle of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which were discussed in different parts of the body in different specialized volumes.