The American journal of the medical sciences
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences is a periodical of medical scholarship, published in the United States in 1827 for physicians and medical students. Its plates are engraved anatomical and clinical diagrams, with one showing magnified microscopic structures, one showing dissected organs with lettered reference keys, and one showing a surgical instrument with a looped frame and sliding mechanism. A designer might take from them the precise, labelled line style of early scientific engraving, with hatching used to model curved forms and small letters placed beside each part.
