The microtomist's vade-mecum : a handbook of the methods of microscopic anatomy / by Arthur Bolles Lee.

  • Lee, Arthur Bolles, 1849-1927.
Date:
1900
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Credit: The microtomist's vade-mecum : a handbook of the methods of microscopic anatomy / by Arthur Bolles Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE FOURTH EDITION. The short period of three years that has elapsed since the publication of the last edition of this work has not brought with it any radical change in the methods of histological research. Such progress as has been realised has consisted rather in improvements in the detail of already-established methods than in the introduction of new methods or new reagents. Nevertheless, the present edition has undergone a most thorough revision—a revision indeed so thorough as to amount to extensive re-writing in many parts. It has seemed to me advisable in the interest of the be¬ ginner, and indeed in the interest of readers who are not beginners at all, to enter more fully than was hitherto done into the detail of the more important processes, to explain more fully the principles on which they are founded, and to add in many cases a critical estimate of their rationality and practical value. In consequence of this re-writing, and in spite of strenuous efforts to keep down the bulk of the work, it has turned out to be considerably increased. I regret, however, this increase the less, in so far as it is due rather to the ampler treatment that has been accorded to the more valuable methods than to increase in the number of processes described. The number of new processes described is in fact