The American journal of the medical sciences
A medical journal issued in 1827 by Charles B. Slack and others in Thorofare, New Jersey, written for physicians and medical students. Its plates are engraved anatomical and mineral diagrams: labelled line drawings of organs, nerve and vessel structures, and angular crystal forms, drawn in dense hatching with thin outlines and letter keys. A designer could borrow the precise labelled-diagram look, with its crisp contour lines, cross-hatched shading and scattered geometric solids.
