Disputatio medica inauguralis de hydrope
A Latin medical dissertation on dropsy, written by Gottlob Berggold and printed in Leipzig in 1695 for academic examination use. The single picture is a black ornamental headpiece of symmetrical fruit, flower and leaf forms in a downward-curving arrangement. A designer could take its dense, mirrored botanical pattern and bold black-on-cream woodcut contrast as a model for border or header ornament.
