The American journal of the medical sciences
A medical journal from 1827 published in Thorofare, New Jersey, with contributions from the Smithsonian Libraries collection, intended for physicians and surgeons. Its four surgical plates show a lower-body operation in stages, with lettered flaps (A, B, C, D) marked on the skin, a metal catheter-like instrument, and sutures drawn in fine engraved hatching, useful to a designer wanting clear diagrammatic line work with labelled sections.
