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Ioannis Argenterii medici De somno et vigilia libri duo : in quibus continentur duae tractationes de calido nativo, et de spiritibus : omnia non solum medicis, sed etiam universis bonarum artium studiosis utilia, & jucunda, atque aliter explicata, quam hactenus fuerint ab aliis tradita

Argenterio, Giovanni, 1513-1572 · 1556 · Florentiae : Excudebat Laurentius Torrentinus · 43 pictures

A 1556 Latin medical treatise on sleep and waking by the physician Giovanni Argenterio, printed in Florence by Lorenzo Torrentino for physicians and scholars of the liberal arts. Its pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, with the letters G, F, and S set inside framed boxes of scrolling foliage, birds, and grotesque faces, ready for borrowing as ornamental capitals.

Sleep · Body temperature · Respiration

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