Dissertatio medica inauguralis de suppressione mensium
A Latin medical dissertation on suppressed menstruation, written by Johann Adolph Reinboth and printed in Leyden in 1677 by the widow and heirs of J. Elzevier as an academic thesis for medical students. Its two pictures are typographic ornaments from the printed page: a foliate headpiece of scrolling leaves and a large decorative initial M set beside the running Latin text. A designer could take from them the seventeenth-century habit of framing a text block with ornament, using a dense woodcut-style scroll cluster above and a richly filled initial letter to open a section.
