Ioannis Malpoei medici Andomarensis Tabellae quae Hippocratis Coi libellos tres de prognosticis complectuntur
A Latin medical treatise by the physician Jean Malpé, printed in Paris in 1563, presenting tables summarising Hippocrates' three books on prognostics for students of medicine. The first picture is a woodcut of the caduceus-like staff of Hippocrates, a rod with a serpent coiled around it, held by two hands between cloud-like forms; the second is a library sale stamp, a scan artefact rather than part of the book. The staff woodcut shows how a single emblem can be built from a rod, a coiling serpent and stylised clouds, a bold image a designer could reduce to a simple mark.
