Chirurgus Cartesianus, detegens aliquot in chirurgia errores hactenus ex ignorantia philosophiae commissos ...
A Latin surgical treatise by Wilhelm Ulrich Waldschmidt, printed at Marburg in 1687 for physicians and surgeons, criticising surgical errors that stemmed from Cartesian philosophy. The single picture is a printer's ornament closing the text: a woodcut urn or vase with fruit, foliage and scrolling tendrils, centred under the word FINIS. A designer might take its symmetrical, dense botanical scrollwork as a model for decorative end-piece borders.
