Hyppocrates chymicus, seu specimina quinque chymiae hyppocraticae...
A 1690 Latin chemical medicine treatise by Giuseppe Francesco Borri, printed at Cologne by P. Vlejgaert and held by a Paris university health library, written in the Hippocratic and Galenic tradition. Its pictures are small printed ornaments: a woodcut basket of flowers set among dense black-letter text, and a circular medallion with a stylised leaf or plant motif beside a decorative initial. A designer might take from them the compact, self-contained decorative vignette that sits inside dense type and works as a tailpiece or inline emblem.
