Traité des pertes de sang, de quelque espèce qu'ellles soient avec leur remede specifique, nouvellement découvert...accompagné de sa lettre sur la nature & la guerison du cancer
A French medical treatise on bloodletting and haemorrhage by the physician Jean Adrien Helvétius, published in Paris in 1697 by Laurent d'Houry and aimed at physicians and surgeons. Its pictures are small engraved plates and printed stamps: a bust in profile with a Hippocratic inscription, an emblematic eagle with the word SPIRAT and SPIRITUS, and surgical instruments with lettered figures, offering designers compact, diagrammatic vintage motifs and lettering.
