The American journal of the medical sciences
A medical journal from 1827 published in the United States, aimed at physicians and medical students, with its plates drawn as anatomical and embryological studies. The pictures show a fleshy membranous organ, a labelled sectional view of nervous tissue, a magnified cell-layer section, and a labelled developing embryo; a designer might take from them the precise numbered-callout style and the soft stippled shading of early scientific plates.
