The microscope: and its revelations / by William B. Carpenter; with an appendix containing the applications of the microscope to clinical medicine, etc. By Francis Gurney Smith.

  • Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885.
Date:
1856
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Thus the volume constitutes a perfect book of reference for the practitioner, demanding a place in even the most limited library of the physician or surgeon, and a work of necessity for the student to fix in his mind what he has learned by the dissecting knife from the book of nature.—The Dublin Quar- terly Journal of Med. Sciences, Nov. 1858. In our judgment, the mode of illustration adopted in the present volume cannot but present many ad vantages to the student of anatomy. To the zealous I disciple of Yesalius, earnestly desirous of real im- provement, the book will certainly be of immense value; but, at the same time, we must also confess that to those simply desirous of “cramming” it will be an undoubted godsend. The peculiar value of Mr. Gray’s mode of illustration is nowhere more j markedly evident than in the chapter on osteology, and especially in those portions which treat of the ' bones of the head and of their development. 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