The pharmacopoeian physician's repository. : Accommodated with elaborate medicinal arcana's. Appositely serving to the whole practice of physick. Exhibited as an exemplar, for imitation and incitation, to the industrious professors in this faculty.
A 1670 London medical text by Everard Maynwaringe, written for physicians and pharmacy practitioners, offering materia medica and pharmaceutical preparations. The picture shows a decorative woodcut initial A with foliate scrollwork beside printed body text, a useful model for designers planning ornamental drop caps and dense letterpress layouts.
