Deuxième defense de la Faculté de médecine de Paris...dans laquelle il est pouvé & ijustifié par raisons,a uthoritez & experiences que l'Emetique composé d'antimoine est un souverain remede pour la guerison de plusieurs maladies...
A seventeenth-century French medical polemic by Jacques Thevart, printed in Paris in 1668 by Emmanuel Langlois, defending the use of antimony emetics against the Paris medical faculty. The one picture is a decorative historiated initial C, its letter filled with a basket of fruit and framed by stylised foliage and blossoms in woodcut. A designer could take from it the dense, hand-cut botanical ornament and the way a capital letter can hold a still-life vignette within a text block.
