The Stethoscope : a monthly journal of medicine and the collateral sciences
A monthly medical journal published in Richmond, Virginia in 1854 by the Medical Society of Virginia, aimed at physicians and readers of collateral sciences. Its plates are numbered microscopic figures of cells and tissue, drawn in fine pen-and-ink with cross-hatched shading on cream paper. A designer might take from them the dense, organic patterning of clustered cells and the tangled, branching forms that suit scientific or textural graphics.
