The American journal of the medical sciences
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences is a periodical of medical science published in the United States in 1827, aimed at physicians and medical readers. Its pictures are small engraved line drawings: a cheese press with a screw and wooden hoop, a microscopic study of cancer cell structure numbered 1 to 4, and a library bookplate showing a helmeted figure of Athena beside busts. A designer could draw on the fine hatched linework and the plain, practical diagrams of early nineteenth-century scientific print.
