The American journal of the medical sciences
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences is a periodical of medical writing published in 1827 in Thorofare, New Jersey, for physicians and medical readers. Its plates show engraved views of the upper end of the human thigh bone, both whole and damaged, with the rounded joint head, neck and shaft drawn in dense cross-hatching. A designer could take from them the strong contour and tonal modelling of old line engraving, with the bony forms rendered almost sculpturally.
