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THIS little book provides an excellent guide to practical work for first-year students in histology and vertebrate embryology. Dr. Eales is an experienced and successful teacher and knows well the pitfalls that lie in the way of the beginner. The simplest methods and a small number of fixatives and stains have been chosen out of the bewildering variety that are at the disposal of the more advanced worker. Directions are given for preparing simple histological injections and for the elementary technique of mammalian embryology, both of which are usually omitted from the first-year course. It may perhaps be suggested that the simplification of methods might perhaps have been carried a little further with advantage; that rough hand-cut sections might have been substituted oftener for the more elegant products of the microtome. Many beginners, and even some more advanced students, have great difficulty in relating the two-dimensional picture presented by a microtome section to the three-dimensional structure of a tissue or an embryo. Sections cut, however inexpertly, by the student himself, do help him over this difficulty.
Practical Histology and Embryology
By Dr. Nellie B. Eales. Pp. xi + 111. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1940.) 3s. 6d. net.
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CALMAN, W. Practical Histology and Embryology. Nature 147, 495 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147495c0
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