Lex talionis; sive vindiciae pharmacoporum; or a short reply to Dr. Merrett's book; and others, written against the apothecaries: wherein may be discovered the frauds and abuses committed by doctors professing and practising pharmacy
Lex talionis is a 1670 London pamphlet printed by M. Pitt, a polemical reply by an apothecary to Dr. Christopher Merrett and other critics, aimed at readers in the medical trade. The two pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, an H with a fleur-de-lis filled lower panel and a D with foliate scrollwork and crosshatched shading, which a designer could take as models for drop caps and border ornament.
