Orthodoxe ou de l'Abus de l'Antimoine, dialogue tres necessaire pour detromper ceux qui donnent ou prennent le Vin & Pouldre Emetique...
A 1652 French medical dialogue by Claude Germain, printed in Paris by Thomas Blaise, warning against antimony emetic wine and powder. The four pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a flower bouquet in a footed urn, a basket of flowers, a grotesque mask strapwork band, and a decorative woodcut initial letter beside French text, offering designers period floral, strapwork and initial-letter motifs.






