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 surgeons. Its engravings are clinical plates showing surgical procedures, instruments, and patients with facial swelling and tumours, drawn in fine black line on pale paper. A designer might take from them the precise, diagrammatic line work typical of nineteenth-century medical engraving, with its hatching and labelled apparatus.
