Dissertatio medica inauguralis de podagra
A 1681 Latin medical dissertation on gout, written by Georg Friedrich Rollwagen and published in Basle by J. Bertsch, held by the Wellcome Library and presumably produced for academic examination. Its one picture is a large decorative initial V, a woodcut letter in which a winged female figure stands above two nude men wrestling or straining in the letter's strokes, with foliage and scrollwork filling the spaces. A designer could take from it the idea of a historiated initial, where a figure or scene is built into the shape of a capital letter with dense hatched line and tight framing.
