Microscopical morphology of the animal body in health and disease / by C. Heitzmann. With 380 original engravings.

Carl Heitzmann

Date:: 1883

Credit: Microscopical morphology of the animal body in health and disease / by C. Heitzmann. With 380 original engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$TfSSrES TX aKXKJiAT.. KJ') of the ('ontractiU' matter may be susiK'iided; and Ijlood-vcssels arise from the formation of vacmdes (see pa^je 'M\), eontaining from tlieir very oriiriu a liquid in which isolated Inmps of living matter are snspendtd. Keseakcues anj> Deductioxs SIXCE 1873. I have ])ur]»()sely given an accurate translation of my assertions in 1878, in order to show that the eell-theory and its consequences, in the light of my investigations, had to Tdc al)andoued. At present, after nine years' further research, I have nothing to alter in my previous statements, and but little to add. Various publications, based on studies made in my laboratory during the last seven years by unprejudiced observers, fully corroborate the new ^dews. Not only physiological and histo- logical research, but pathological investigation as well, ajnoU become more fruitful. Inflammation, tul)erculosis, formation of tumors—in short, all morbid processes—will be better under- stood than is possible with cellular-pathological views. L. Elsberg, in 187.1,* makes the following statements : Not only in the wide domain of organic physiology, but especially also in human pathology, the cell doctrine has been accepted so universally that it seems to me eminently proper to bring the new \-iews to the notice of the American Medical Asso- ciation, even at this early stage of their crystallization into a complete doctrine. AU that I shall present to you as histological fact has been repeatedly observed and demonstrated by C. Heitz- mann, both at Vienna and New York; and a number of others, as well as I, have been enabled to confirm his observations. The ideas of humoral and solidistic pathologists long con- tinued to influence medical teachings after Schwann's dis- coveries of the elementary sti-uctm-e of tissues were generally acknowledged as correct, and more or less consistently applied. It was really not until Virchow promulgated his celebrated lectures on cellular pathology, less than twenty years ago,— lectiu'es which reached and deeply impressed the medical pro- fession in every portion of the globe,—that the ceU-doctrine has had undisputed sway. * Notice of the Bioplasson Doctrine. Transactions of the American Medical Association, 1875.$