The American journal of the medical sciences
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences is a medical periodical published in 1827 in Thorofare, New Jersey, for physicians and medical students. The four pictures are wood-engraved plates of human faces and heads showing surgical and pathological conditions, several with stitched or sutured features. A designer could draw on their hatched shading, stark frontal portraits and clinical, diagrammatic plainness for unsettling or documentary imagery.
