A rectangular decorative woodcut headpiece features symmetrical scrolling foliage, vines, and small figures of putti integrated into the ornamentation.

TO THE MEN

EXCELLING IN THE

SPLENDOR OF NOBILITY,

AND IN THE GRAVITY;

AND IN THE AMPLITUDE OF

DIGNITY, the Lords, the Con-

suls and Senators of the free and imperial

city of Nuremberg, etc., Lords to be

honored with the duty of

owed respect:

ANDREAS LIBAVIVS

DOCTOR OF MEDICINE, POET, AND PHYSICIAN OF

Rothenburg ob der Tauber, greeting.

Those people perform a truly excellent service, and one highly necessary for human well-being in this worldly life, who struggle with whatever strength they possess against the throngs of corruption, both in other kinds of studies and in bringing forth true medicine,