The American journal of the medical sciences
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, a periodical of 1827 published in New Jersey for physicians and medical students, collects clinical case reports and surgical observations. Its woodcut plates show diseased and malformed body parts in close detail, including a limb, a swollen mass and a face with a cleft mouth labelled with a letter key, drawn in plain outline with hatching. A designer might borrow the crisp hatched line work and the tonal shading of organic forms for scientific or anatomical illustration.
