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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    EDITOR’S PREFACE. Considering the fact that there are already a number of excellent and widelv known text-books and atlases of histology, it may seem like a hazardous venture to enter nj)on the field with something new. 8(d>otta has, how- ever, in his “Atlas nnd (Trnndriss der Ilistologie nnd mikrqskoj)isehen Anatomie des Mensehen,” sneceed('d in combining an abundance of well-chosen and most accurate illustrations with a concise text in sncli a manner as to make it both atlas and text-book. The illustrations comprise eighty lithographic j)lates, which hav(‘ been reproduced with the aid of over thirty colors, and sixty-eight figures reproduced with tlie aid of ])liotomcchanical metliods. The publishers have spared 110 expense in the re])roduction of jilatcs and figures; tliey have been printed witli tiu' greatest care and exactness, and jiortray most faithfully the mi(U’oseo|)ic preparations reproduced. T1h‘oi-igiuul drawings wliieh flirmed tIu' liasis of nearly all the ilhistratiousof this volume were madeafter the following method, suggested by Sohotta : 'The prepa- rations were jihotographed uud(>r the same magnification as that tinder which they were drawn. T1k> photographs were then used as a liasis for the drawings, in that outline draw- ings, ev'cn to the finest details, were traced on tracing-paper; these outline drawings were then transferred to drawing- paper. 'fliis method assures exactness of magnification ; by means of it distortion is avoidnl, and during the ]irc|)- aration of the drawing the photograph sc'rves as a control picture. .As the details of a drawing, especially of a gen-