The cell doctrine : its history and present state for the use of students in medicine and dentistry also, a copious bibliography of the subject / by James Tyson.

  • Tyson, James, 1841-1919.
Date:
1878
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The cell doctrine : its history and present state for the use of students in medicine and dentistry also, a copious bibliography of the subject / by James Tyson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    17/222
    TO THE FIEST EDITIOI^. The author has become convincecl, by several years’ intimate intercourse with students of medicine, that their acquaintance with the subjects he has endeavored to in- clude in this little volume would be facilitated, if the views, which are now taught and scattered throughout the often expensive works of their authors, were collected in a convenient form for study and reference. Taking it for granted that a knowledge of this subject is of fun- damental importance in its bearing upon the study of physiology and pathology, and stimulated by the frequent inquiries of students for an appropriate source of infor- mation, he has prepared what he now submits to them. He has sought to obtain a continuous historv of the o evolution of the cell doctrine ” up to its present state, without embarrassing his pages with a large number of isolated facts. He has attempted, however, to secure a completeness, and to make'the work useful to physicians