Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosæ luis, quæ pestis dicitur. : Quo origo, causæ, signa, prognostica pestis, nec non insolentes malignantis naturæ effectus, qui statis temporibus, cælestium influxuum virtute & efficacia, tum in elementis, tum in epidemijs hominum animantiumque morbis elucescunt, vnà cum appropriatis remediorum antidotis noua doctrinâ in lucem eruuntur. Ad. .
A 1658 Latin medical treatise on plague by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher, printed in Rome by Mascardi for physicians and scholars. Its pictures are small woodcut headpieces and ornaments, each a symmetrical cartouche with a central grotesque mask, scrolled banners, fruit, birds and hanging foliage, a design a designer might borrow for a decorative frame, label or heraldic device.
