Engraved title page with central lettered cartouche, allegorical figures on each side, and a lower scene of a dissection and laboratory with robed onlookers.

Title page of Opera Medica by Gregorius Horstius, 1660, with allegorical and anatomical scenes

An engraved title page framed by ornate architectural borders, with a central cartouche reading Opera Medica and Norimbergae 1660. Flanking allegorical figures stand on either side, and a lower panel shows robed men gathered around a dissection and a laboratory with glass vessels and furnaces.

Artist: Johann Friedrich Fleischberger
Date: 1660
Medium: Title pages Engravings
Source: Wellcome Collection
Size: 2350 × 4000 px

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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1660.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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Title page of Opera Medica by Gregorius Horstius, 1660, with allegorical and anatomical scenes

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