The American journal of the medical sciences
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences is a periodical of medical writing published in the United States in 1827, aimed at physicians and medical students. Its four pictures are black-and-white line engravings of tissue sections under the microscope, with lettered labels keyed to parts of the specimens. A designer might take their dense, hand-hatched linework and the rhythmic patterns of fibres and cell clusters as texture and pattern sources.
