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IN 1936 there appeared an admirable book “Histochemie Animale”, by L. Lison. In this book, Lison tried to teach chemistry to the histologists, and by the weight of his own reasoning he was forced to discard a great many time-honoured histological methods the validity of which had never been really investigated. Recently, in an article entitled “Establishment of Cytochemical Techniques”1, J. F. Danielli endeavours to do a similar thing for cytochemistry, and, since some of his criticisms concern techniques which form the backbone of modern cytochemistry, it might, perhaps, be feared that his remarks will leave the cytochemist with a gloomy feeling of being suspended in mid-air without any reliable method to cling to. There is no doubt, however, that Dr. Danielli's plea for more exactness in cytochemistry is necessary and justified, and it is to be hoped that his article will have the same wholesome effect as Lison's book.
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HOLTER, H. Establishment of Cytochemical Techniques. Nature 158, 917 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158917a0
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