Atlas and epitome of human histology and microscopic anatomy / by Johannes Sobotta ; edited, with extensive additions, by G. Carl Huber.

  • Sobotta Johannes, 1869-1945.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Atlas and epitome of human histology and microscopic anatomy / by Johannes Sobotta ; edited, with extensive additions, by G. Carl Huber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    oral view under low magnification, are nearly always filled in under a lens of higher power, there is always a danger that the cell-nncU‘i are represented larger than the magnifi- cation ])ermits ; this is avoided by the above method. In a few instances a number of photographs were cond)ined to make a single drawing. Some two hundred micro- ])hotograi)hs W(‘r(> made for the figures represented in the atlas. Nearly all the illustrations in the volume were made under relatively low magnifications, such as are used by the majority of sttuh'iits in the general micro- scopic courses. Attention may esjK'cially be drawn to numerous figures portraying, under very low magnifica- tion, a general view of entire organs or parts of organs, thus giving the student more accurate mental j)icturcs of the relations of tin; component structures than can be gained by a study of figures giving smalt areas under higher magnification. The great majority of the illustrations were made from sections ])rc])ared from human tissues, obtained from indi- viduals who had been exeeuted ; some few from tissues taken from a bf)dy two and a half hours after death, ddie ti.ssues employed may therefore be regarded as fresh and normal in every respect. Nearly all the micro.scopic j)reparatious I'eproduced were made by Sobotta; a few were obtained from the anatomic collection at Wurzburg; some few from j)rivate collections; for these, apj)ropriate credit is given in the legends describing the respective figures. Tissues from animals served the ])urpose when it was desirable to illustrate a special structure or a char- acteristic ai'rangement of tissue-elemeuts, or in a few instances when human tissues wei’e not available. The text is as brief and concise as ]K)ssible. Neither references to literature nor disj)utcd views could then'fon' find ])lace therein. It is limited to the generally recog- nized facts of microsco])ic anatomy, and is written con- uect(!(lly and without s])ccial nd'ereuce to the figures. In assuming editorial r('s|)onsibility lor the text, the editor