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, addressed to physicians and surgeons. Its engravings are plain line drawings of surgical instruments and anatomical parts, showing hand-held tools, fastening devices and a sac-like organ with sutures, drawn with clean outlines and little shading. A designer could take from them a clear, diagrammatic style built on thin contour lines and labelled parts.
