The histology and histochemistry of man : a treatise on the elements of composition and structure of the human body / by Heinrich Frey ; translated from the fourth German edition by Arthur E. J. Barker and revised by the author.

Date:
1874
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Credit: The histology and histochemistry of man : a treatise on the elements of composition and structure of the human body / by Heinrich Frey ; translated from the fourth German edition by Arthur E. J. Barker and revised by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PEEFACE. If only in the eyes of those valued friends whose kindly interest in my work has ofttimes been as great a stimulus to sustained exertion in the laborious task of translation as it has been a solace in the usual and varied delays and disappointments of publishing, I feel that perhaps some justification of myself is necessary for the late appearance of this volume ; so much later than either they or I had anticipated. The delay has in a great measure been due to my being obliged to recast a large portion of my first manuscript, in order to bring it down to a new and much enlarged and altered Fourth Edition of the original; commenced just as I had concluded my translation more than a year ago, and the “ Proofs ” of which I received as they were pressed off, and revised by the Author. The task accomplished, however, I now feel my regret at the delay lightened to a great extent by the consideration, that through it the value of the work is considerably enhanced, and that the latter now contains the most recently gathered matter from many important fields of investigation; passing, as it does, through the printer’s hands, at the same time, with the last edition of the original. As regards the work which I now present to my medical brethren in an English dress, and which has already been translated into French, any lengthy personal testimony to its value is unnecessary. The fact that it now appears for the fourth time in a new edition is a sufficient proof of the favour with which it is regarded as a hand- book in Germany, where it was recommended to myself, when a student in that country, as the best work of its kind, by one of the lathers of Histology, my late valued and lamented teacher and Iriend, Professor Max Schultze. But I am aware this .translation