Commentaire sur l'Ecole de Salerne : contenant les moyens de se passer de medecin & de vivre long-temps en santé, avec une infinité de remedes contre toutes sortes de maladies, & un traité des humeurs, & de la saignée, où sont adjoûtez la sanguification, circulation et transfusion du sang, la poudre & l'onguent de simpathie, le thé, le caphé, le chocolate, l'ouromantie, scatomantie et hydromantie ec.
A 1672 Paris medical compendium published by Gilles Alliot, a bookseller on rue Saint-Jacques, offering health advice, remedies and notes on the humours and bleeding for lay readers. The four pictures are woodcut decorative initials and a headpiece: a large letter L framed by dense leafy foliage, a letter C ringed with sprigs and leaves, and a crown on a ribbon between flowering branches. A designer could take from them the tight, interlaced leaf-border framing of early printed letters and the simple crown-and-ribbon headpiece for ornamental panels.
