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WHEN, a year ago, we reviewed this work upon its first appearance, it consisted of but seventy-two pages, and contained four illustrations; the second edition occupies very nearly two hundred pages, and is illustrated with sixty-three woodcuts. The enlargement gives the author an opportunity of entering with considerably greater detail into his subject, and he is able to introduce much new matter. Among the most important additions we may mention a chapter on the optical principles upon which the microscope is constructed, including immersion lenses, and an instrument manufactured by Mr. Swift of London, which is apparently as good as those of continental celebrity. The histologicai sections may be said, practically, to be re-written, for to almost every one is added matter of great value, essential to all but the merest commencer. Among these we notice paragraphs upon the effects of gases on the blood, the enumeration of the discs, the “prickle” cells of the epidermis, lymphatics of the diaphragm, coverings of hair, structure of the retina and of the cerebral con volutions. In the fourth part of the work, which is devoted to general considerations regarding histologicai methods, the application of vapours and gases to tissues is explained, as are the hot stage for the microscope, with its heating apparatus and the moist chamber of Dallinger and Drysdale. The author's microtome is figured, as is the apparatus necessary for injecting tissues by the pressure-bottle. All the figures are excellently drawn, and very lucid, and so greatly has the book increased in value, instructive as it was before, that we feel quite justified in recommending those who possess the first edition to purchase the second, and those who are studying the first principles of practical histology to obtain it without fail.
Outlines of Practical Histology.
William
Rutherford
By. Second Edition. (J. and A. Churchill, 1876.)
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Outlines of Practical Histology. Nature 15, 4 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/015004a0
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