Section Cutting and Staining / A practical introduction to histological methods for students and practitioners

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W. S. COLMAN, M.D., M.R.C.P.
ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN (FORMERLY PATHOLOGIST) TO THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYSED AND EPILEPTIC; AND TO THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, GREAT ORMOND STREET, ETC.
SECOND EDITION
ENLARGED AND IN MOST PART RE-WRITTEN
LONDON H. K. LEWIS, 136 GOWER STREET, W.C. 1896
PRINTED BY H. K. LEWIS, 136 GOWER STREET, LONDON, W.C.
In preparing this edition I have endeavoured to meet the requirements of students, and of practitioners who desire to keep up their histological work. Those methods are selected which have been found to work well in practice, and it has been thought better to describe a few in detail rather than give a short account of many similar methods.