Volume 1

The microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease. Illustrated with numerous drawings in colour / By Arthur Hill Hassall, M.B.

  • Hassall, Arthur Hill, 1817-1894.
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease. Illustrated with numerous drawings in colour / By Arthur Hill Hassall, M.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    a RY PREFACE. After three years of more or less constant labour, the wel- come and often-wished-for period of the completion of this work has arrived, and the author is at liberty to address himself to his readers, and to explain the motives and the circumstances which have led to its production. The idea of this work presented itself to the author’s mind several years since; it was not, however, until about the period above referred to, that its actual execution was commenced. At the time when its design was first conceived, the powers of the microscope in developing organic structure were but beginning to be known and appreciated, and the importance of its application to physiology and pathology was but dimly perceived. At that period, also, but few complete works devoted to microscopic anatomy had appeared in any language, native or foreign; more recently this deficiency, as respects France and Germany, has been well supplied by the appearance of several original works, as those of Donne, Mandl, Lebert, M filler, Henle, Vogel, Gerber, and Wagner; England, how- ever, has not as yet contributed her share of distinct and independent works on general anatomy : not that our ob- servers have been idle, or have neglected a field of inquiry so interesting and important, resting satisfied with mere translations : a whole host of intelligent and able microscopists have applied themselves to the investigation of the ultimate