Traité du cancer où l'on explique sa nature, & où l'on propose les moyens les plus surs pour le guerir methodiquement avc un examen du systême et de la pratique de Mr Helvetius
A French medical treatise on cancer by Jean Baptiste Alliot, published in Paris in 1698 by François Muguet for surgeons and physicians, a text on disease rather than a picture book. The single picture is a bookplate: an engraved heraldic cartouche with a crown of fleur-like finials, scrolling foliage and a fleur-de-lis-like central motif, above a Latin inscription reading 'Ex Bibl. Regiae Chirurgorum Parisiensium Academiae'. A designer could draw on its tight, symmetrical scrollwork and crowned emblem as a model for seals, monograms and ornamental frames.
