Nouveau traitte du pourpre, de la rougeole et petite verole, de leur nature et de leurs remedes avec un Traité de la douleur nephretique...
A 1688 French medical treatise on purple fever, measles and smallpox, written by A. Porchon and published in Paris by Maurice Villery for physicians and general readers of the period. Its pictures are small woodcut-style ornaments of a flower-filled urn with scrolled handles, repeated as tailpieces, and a designer might take their symmetrical botanical arrangement and compact vignette format as a model for decorative borders.
