The American journal of the medical sciences
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences is a periodical of medical writing published in the United States in 1827, aimed at physicians and medical readers. Its engravings are plain line drawings of anatomical and pathological specimens, labelled with letters and numbers that key each part to a caption. A designer might take from them the precise, diagrammatic style of early medical plates, with fine hatching that models curved surfaces and tangled forms.
