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 readers. Its plates are engraved scientific figures: an apparatus with a curved arm and lettered parts, pale threadlike worms, magnified cell and tissue clusters, and a cross-section of an egg-shaped body with coiled segmented contents. A designer might take from them the fine parallel hatching and tonal shading of 19th-century scientific engraving, along with the clean lettered labels and the organic curling forms.
