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A FIRST attempt at scientific research in a new field should always command our respect, and this book, professing to expound the methods of physiological histology with their underlying reasons, is no exception to the rule. The author has with incredible labour collected all the current information on physical chemistry colloids, histology and the chemistry of dye-stuffs, and has endeavoured to combine these into one harmonious and coherent whole, and to deduce from them reasonable answers to all the questions that have arisen on the subjects of the fixation and staining of animal tissues. That the explanations of the observed facts in histology have so far been fragmentary, incomplete and unsatisfactory, no one will deny, and if this work has hardly as yet brought us to a final and definite conclusion, the fault must be laid to the door of our collective ignorance of the matters involved rather than to the writer of the present volume.
Methods and Theory of Physiological Histology.
By Gustav Mann Pp. xv + 488. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) Price 15s. net.
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Methods and Theory of Physiological Histology . Nature 67, 484 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067484a0
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