The American journal of the medical sciences
A medical journal of 1827 published in the United States, aimed at physicians and medical readers, with its pages carrying engraved diagrams. The pictures are plain line drawings: a nerve or vessel swollen at two points, a bean-shaped outline with lettered points and a dashed arc, and a hand with shaded areas and labelled lines. A designer could take their clean, schematic line work and lettered annotations as models for technical diagrams.
