The American journal of the medical sciences
A nineteenth-century American medical journal from 1827, published in New Jersey and issued for physicians and medical students. Its plates are line engravings of anatomical and surgical specimens, including a branching vessel with a flap of tissue, a curved probe-like instrument with a screw-tipped fitting, paired pelvic-style bone outlines, and a labelled eye section. Designers can take from them the precise, labelled diagram style, with lettered reference points and hatched shading that suggests volume without colour.
