The arraignment of urines: wherein are set downe the manifold errors and abuses of ignorant urine-monging empirickes, cozening quacksalvers, women-physitians, and the like stuffe
A 1623 London medical treatise printed by G. Eld for Robert Mylbourne, written by the Dutch physician Pieter van Foreest and aimed at readers wanting to judge urine-based diagnosis and the quacks who practised it. The three pictures are woodcut historiated initials: a naked putto leaning on a large N in two versions, and a lion curled around a fancy S, each set in a square frame beside dense black-letter text. A designer could take from them the compact power of figure-filled capital letters that sit cleanly inside a text block.
