Le chirurgien d'hospital enseignant une maniere douce & facile de guerir promptement toutes sortes de playes...
A 1696 French surgical manual by Augustin Belloste, published in Paris by Laurent d'Houry, written to teach hospital surgeons gentle and quick methods for treating wounds. The single picture is a bookplate-style engraved cartouche with a crowned coat of arms, scrolling foliage and a Latin inscription reading 'Ex Bibl. Regiae Chirurgorum Parisiensium Academ.', showing the book's ownership by the Paris surgeons' academy; a designer could take its symmetrical framed emblem and dense flourished scrollwork as a model for ornamental heraldic borders.
