Fascination
A mid-nineteenth-century American book on hypnotism, published in New York by Fowlers and Wells in 1848 and drawn from the Library of Congress collection, aimed at general readers curious about mesmeric practice. Its pictures are black-and-white wood engravings of human anatomy: a full-figure view of the blood vessels and nerves spreading through the body, a cut-open abdomen with organs labelled by letter, and a close study of a spinal column with lettered branches. A designer might take the fine hatched line work and the lettered callout system as a model for scientific diagram styling.
