Erreurs populaires touchant la medecine et regime de santé : par M. Gaspard Bachot Bourbonnois Conseiller & Medecin du Roy ; oeuvre nouvelle, desirée de plusieurs, & promise oar feu M. Laurens Joubert
A 1626 French medical treatise on popular health errors and regimen, written by Gaspard Bachot, a Bourbonnais councillor and physician to the King, and printed at Lyon by Barthelemy Vincent for lay readers and practitioners. Its pages show a large decorative initial with a robed figure among scrollwork, set beside italic French text in dense letterpress columns and a heavy roman capital heading with a dedication block. A designer might take the contrast between the ornate initial and the plain text blocks as a model for historical typographic hierarchy.
