Speculum ægrotorum: the sicke-mens glasse: or a plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies; with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of whate complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking, rest and exercise, worketh in euery person: with certain speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight / Composed by John Fage.
A 1606 London medical treatise by John Fage, a student in physic, written for the sick and their attendants, offering prognosis by astrology, the four humours and advice on diet and exercise. Its pictures are four decorative woodcut strapwork borders of foliage, scrolls and a central mask or face, useful to a designer seeking Renaissance-style ornamental bands for headers or dividers.
