Researches on the primary stages of histogenesis and histolysis / by Robert D. Lyons, M.B.T.C.D., M.R.I.A. (Honorary Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Dublin Society, etc.).

  • Lyons, Robert D. (Robert Dyer), 1826-1886
Date:
1853
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Credit: Researches on the primary stages of histogenesis and histolysis / by Robert D. Lyons, M.B.T.C.D., M.R.I.A. (Honorary Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Dublin Society, etc.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is further to be remarked, that crystalline forms, whether organic or inorganic, have no place in this arrangement. Several instances having come tmder my notice in which structm-es submitted to microscopic examination appeared to have undergone considerable alteration, by reason of a more or less advanced condition of decomposition, I was led to institute a series of observations for the pm^pose of discovering the order (if any) of the morphic changes which take place in the passage of organized bodies through the several stages of putrefaction to their final dissolution and decay, until they re- turn, ashes to ashes, and dust to dust. As I believe that the researches I have abeady made warrant me in stating that a certain order of morphic changes is brought about, I have introduced the term Histolysis, to designate the morphic changes of putrefying tissues, the use of a single word being convenient for the purposes of description and reference. Not only will the study of Histolysis be found interesting in itself, as a portion of scientific inquhy, presenting, as it does, several beautiful and unexpected phenomena; but, moreover, the knowledge thereby acquired admits of several valuable and practical applications. Thus, it affords most favourable opportunities for the study of the intimate struc- tm-e of complicated normal textm-es, which are thus, as it were, unfolded to om- view by a process of natm-al dissection, in which the least possible violence is done to the most delicate parts. Fm-thermore, as I have abeady stated, I beUeve it fur- nishes us with means of elucidating some of the early and ob- scure phases of Histogenesis. Lastly, I feel confident that when the histolytic process will have been carefully and suc- cessfully studied in the chief tissues, fluids, and organs, the knowledge thus acquired will prove eminently useful m medico- legal inquiries, and wiU give a precision and accuracy to m- veltigations of this nature which they are now incapable of. In pathological research, Hkewise, it will be higlily useful. To study the morphic changes of putrefaction, under what may be