Les observations de médecine
Les observations de médecine is a 1688 French medical casebook by the physician Lazare Rivière, printed at Lyon by Jean Certe for a readership of practising doctors and students. The pictures are small, stiff letterpress devices: a crowned armorial cartouche with a Latin dedication to the Paris medical academy, a woodcut vase of flowers, and a set of spaced capitals with a fleuron row, useful to a designer for period ornament, heraldic framing and classic display type.
