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, written by and for physicians and surgeons. Its plates are etched and engraved line drawings of surgical anatomy and instruments, including a mouth interior with a suture-stitched cleft, a throat or palate view, a screw-compression clamp, and a curved glass or metal tube with a bulb. A designer might take the dense crosshatching, precise contour lines, and clinical diagram conventions as models for technical line art.
