The American journal of the medical sciences
This is a Smithsonian-held medical journal from 1827, a periodical for physicians and medical students published in New Jersey. Its plates are engraved microscope studies of cells and tissue, showing star-shaped cells with nuclei, a mosaic of endothelial cells, and elongated fibre-like cells, drawn in fine hatching and stippling. A designer might borrow the scientific diagram style, the stippled tonal textures, and the organic cell-pattern motifs for backgrounds or pattern work.
