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A dial for all agues : conteininge the names in Greeke, Latten, and Englyshe, with the diversities of them, symple and compounde, proper and accident, definitions, devisions, causes, and signes, comenly hetherto knowen : very profitable for al men

Jones, John, physician · 1566 · Imprinted at Londo[n] : by William Seres, dwelling at the west end of Paules at the Signe of the Hedge hogge · 18 pictures

A dial for all agues is a 1566 medical treatise by the physician John Jones, printed in London by William Seres for general readers interested in fevers. The four pictures are historiated initials, each a large capital T framed in a square of dense black ground with pale scrolling acanthus-like foliage curling around the letter, useful for designers seeking decorative drop caps and woodcut-style ornament.

Malaria · Fever

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