Text-book of histology : including the microscopical technique / by Philipp Stöhr.

  • Stöhr, Philipp, 1849-1911.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Text-book of histology : including the microscopical technique / by Philipp Stöhr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    EDITOR'S PREFACE. Stiihr's text-book is well known to the histologists of all nations and held in high esteem by them. To the German medical student it has become an in- dispensable guide. During the ten years of its existence it has reached an ex- traordinary sale and pa.ssed through six revised editions. It has been translated into Italian (1887), French (1890), and Russian (1891), and has thus come into the hands of the students of these nations. These facts are sufficient to guarantee the value of the work without further recommendation, .\lthough excellent text-books of Histology already exist in English, still the peculiarity and special superiority of Stohr's text-book justifies, in our opinion, its transla- tion into English for the convenience of .\merican and English students. * It is especially intended for the use of students, but even professional histol- ogists and physicians will find in it much valuable information, as well as sug- gestions for technical purposes. The chief merit of the work lies, on the one hand, in the brevity and perspicuity of the descriptive text, elucidated by illustrations which have thus far never been excelled ; and, on the other hand, in the simplicity and certainty of the methods for preparing the most important microscopical specimens. The young .student is thus enabled to practice histological methods privately, at a minimum cost, in connection with his courses in the university. The preparation of almost all of the specimens enumerated in the book can be made simply by means of teasing, isolation, or cutting with the razor, but those .students who have a microtome at their disposal will also find, in an .\|)pendix, brief directions tor the preparatory treatment (embedding in paraffin and celloidin) of specimens for sectioning with the microtome. With the permission of Prof. Stohr we have made several immaterial, but for an American edition very desirable, changes in the text, and have considered it more preferable to place the technical part as a whole at the end of the book rather than in sections after the several chapters. Furthermore, we have enlarged the cha])ter on the I'terus, in order to give detailed consideration to the various functional conditions of the organ, and added to the book an entirely new chapter on the I'lacenta. Eight new illustrations (Fig. 200, 201, 202, 203. 204, 205, 206, 207) were neces.sary for these additions. * In 1888 Stohr's Text-book was utilized in Kendrick's Physiology, but in such a frag- mentary form and so intermingled with selections from other .luthors thai its chief merits wero entirely lost. This use of the book cannot be considered as an Knglish translation proper.