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De medicina Aegyptiorum libri quatuor & Iacobi Bontii in Indiis archiatri, de medicina Indorum

Alpino, Prospero, Bondt, Jakob de · 1646 · Parisiis : Apud Viduam Gulielmi Pele & Ioannem Duval · 2 pictures

A 1646 Paris medical treatise by Prospero Alpino and Jakob de Bondt, bringing together Egyptian and Indian medicine for a learned readership of physicians. The first picture is a woodcut anatomical diagram of a lower leg with labelled regions (popliteal, sural, malleolus) in a plain line style. The second is a decorative woodcut initial D with foliage beside a dense printed column of Latin text, showing how early modern book pages were built.

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