Ioannis Baptistae Susii, philosophi, ac medici mirandulensis. Libri tres. De venis edirectò secandis; : in quibus Matthaei Curtij praeceptoris sui sententia defenditur, aduersus Andream Turinum, Benedictum Victorium, Victorem Trincauellium, & Andream Vesalium
A 1559 Latin medical treatise by the physician Giovanni Battista Susio, printed in Cremona at the press of Vincenzo Conte, arguing for vein-opening (phlebotomy) in the treatment of pleurisy and addressed to fellow physicians and students. The pictures are small woodcut initial letters, one with a figure tangled in a branch-like framing and others showing a seated figure beside a bottle-like vessel and a bird, drawn with dense parallel hatching that a designer could borrow for decorative capitals.
