A text-book of pathological histology : an introduction to the study of pathological anatomy / By Dr. Edward Rindfleisch ... Translated from the 2d German ed. ... by William C. Kloman, M.D., assisted by F.T. Miles.
- Rindfleisch, Georg Eduard von, 1836-1908. Lehrbuch der pathologischen gewebelehre zur einfuhrung in das studium der pathologischen anatomie. English
- Date:
- 1872
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A text-book of pathological histology : an introduction to the study of pathological anatomy / By Dr. Edward Rindfleisch ... Translated from the 2d German ed. ... by William C. Kloman, M.D., assisted by F.T. Miles. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. Being about to commit a new text-book to the student-youtli of Germany, I am impelled to preface the same with some words enunciating the contents and the leading topics. Pathological anatomy is one of the youngest of medical sciences. In Morgagni's writings: De sedibus et causis mor- borum per anatomen indagatis (Venet., 1761) are contained its beginnings. It was elaborated, as well by its founder, as by his immediate followers, in Germany by Meckel (Joh. Fr. M., Handbook of Pathological Anatomy, Halle, 1804-1805), Otto, and others, entirely according to the demonstrations of normal descriptive anatomy, and up to within the thirtieth year of our century, comprehended an assemblage of the deviations, which diseased organs could undergo in their general characteristics, their shape, size, number, situation, connection, consistency, continuity, color, and contents. Microscopic investigation, however, which placed normal histology by the side of t]ie anatomy of Vesalius, was necessarily compelled similarly also to enrich pathological anatomy. Pokitansky and Virchow, as the founders of a pathological histology, have earned an im- perishable meed in our science. It very soon appeared, how- ever, that pathological histology must assume an entirely different and more important position to pathological anatomy, than does normal histology to normal anatomy. Pathological histology shows, how those coarser changes of the organs, en- largements, diminutions, indurations, softenings, discolorations,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21198019_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
