De medicamento purgante quarta die dissertatio. In qua cum Hippocratis, tum Galeni auctoritatibus tumuè validissimis rationibus quarto die non esse purgandum statuitur.
A 1636 Latin medical dissertation by Hyacinthus Trabona, printed in Palermo by Alphonsus de Isola for the archiepiscopal court, arguing against purging on the fourth day of illness using Hippocratic and Galenic authority. The pictures are typographic woodcut ornaments: decorative initial letters with foliage scrolls, a cartouche-like headpiece, and historiated initials containing small figures in roundels. A designer could take the interlaced acanthus borders and the framed figure-in-medallion format as models for period ornament.
