Apparatus et delectus simplicium medicamentorum : De compositione medicamentorum secundum genera, ex Paulo Aegineta. De compositione medicamentorum secundum genera universalis methodus, ex Galeno. Omnia nunc primùm aedita, cùm medicis, tum pharmacopolis omnib. apprimè necessaria ...
A 1542 Latin medical text by Conrad Gesner, printed in Lyon by the Frellonius brothers, aimed at physicians and apothecaries and drawing on Galen and Paul of Aegina on drug preparation. Its pictures are historiated and ornamental initials, large letters filled with dense foliage scrollwork, human figures and grotesque heads, set against blocks of close black-letter type, offering a designer examples of Renaissance capitals that combine vegetal ornament with figurative detail.
