Disputatio inauguralis medica de febrifuga chinae-chinae virtute ...
A 1693 Latin medical dissertation by Christian Johann Horbius, printed at Altdorf by Henricus Meyer, written as an inaugural thesis on the fever-reducing virtue of cinchona bark. The picture is a large decorated initial E cut as a woodblock, with a small cherub at its left and a robed figure at lower right tending the letter. A designer could take from it the dense, hand-cut woodblock framing of a baroque printed initial, with its crowded figures and cross-hatched shading.
