Casus medicinales annorum 1659-60 & 61
Casus medicinales is a 1695 Latin medical casebook by François Du Bois, also called Sylvius, printed at Utrecht and drawn from clinical cases of 1659 to 1661. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a decorated initial D with foliate scrollwork, a leafy cartouche, and a stout urn holding a bouquet of tulip-like flowers. A designer could borrow these baroque botanical borders, drop caps and vase motifs for period-styled headers, ornaments or packaging.
