The American journal of the medical sciences
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences is a periodical of medicine published in the United States, and this 1827 volume carries its clinical and scientific papers for a physician readership. The pictures are plain line engravings on tinted paper: surgical and examination instruments with lettered reference points, and branching nerve or tissue fibres drawn in fine hatched outline. A designer could take their precise labelled diagrams and the tidy, technical line work as a model for scientific figure plates.
