The American journal of the medical sciences
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences is a 1827 American medical periodical published in Thorofare, New Jersey, for physicians and medical students. Its four engraved plates show surgeons performing operations on a patient's limb and body, drawn in fine parallel hatching with the instruments and hands clearly described. A designer could take from them a clear, diagrammatic style of line work for depicting surgical procedures, with strong hand-and-tool gestures and dense cross-hatched shadow on pale paper.
