Book Review: Histology

A Text-Book of Histology

A Text Book of Histology

Bailey's Text-book of Histology

The reviewer hopes that the reader will forgive the following personal observation. No "short course," however well presented, can give a student the training that a good year-long course can give. No one is more aware of this than is Professor Hitchcock, as the preface to the first edition will testify. The reviewer is disturbed by the fact that the majority of biological scientists, if they t...

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A Text-Book of Morbid Histology

The author treats of hardening, cutting, staining, and mounting sections before describing the various morbid structures.. We do not think that the proper way to get good results from the picro-carmine stain is to let the fluid remain on the section only a minute or so; and we are surprised that Farrant's solution has not superseded glycerine as a mounting medium, as it is so much better for th...