The American journal of the medical sciences
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, a periodical published in 1827 in Thorofare, New Jersey, by Charles B. Slack and others, offered medical practitioners and students case reports and anatomical study. Its pictures are engraved anatomical plates of organs, shown with lettered keys, cross-hatched shading and fine contour lines. A designer might take from them the precise, diagrammatic style of 19th-century medical illustration, with lettered callouts and dense hatching for texture.
