Examen ou raisonnement sur l'usage de la saignée. avec un parfaite cognoissance des facultez & vertus du sang, et des autres humeurs
A 1644 French medical treatise on bloodletting, published in Paris by its author Henry de Rochas d'Ayglun and aimed at physicians and readers of medicine. The pictures are a historiated initial with a figure in foliage, a second decorated initial, and a small ornamental tailpiece of a face framed by swags and tassels, all in close-set black letter type with a designer's eye for dropped capitals and decorative ornament.


