Febris anomala or, the new disease that now rageth throughout England ... To which is added a brief description ... of that disease, which this spring most in infested London
Febris anomala is a 1659 London medical tract by Humphrey Whitmore, printed for booksellers at the sign of the Bell in St Paul's Churchyard, addressed to a general readership about a fever then sweeping the city. Its pictures are small printer's ornaments: a square woodcut initial with interlaced foliage and a row of stylised floral and urn-shaped tailpieces, which a designer might borrow for decorative borders, headers, or period-style dividers.
