Disputatio medica inauguralis de chamomilla
A Latin medical dissertation on chamomile by Johann Daniel Scheffer, printed in Strasbourg in 1700 by Johann Friedrich Spoor as an inaugural university thesis for medical graduates. Its two pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, a C and an S, framed by dense scrolling foliage in black ink on cream paper, offering a designer ready-made models for ornamental capitals, border knotwork and early modern letterpress decoration.
