Pathological technique : a practical manual for workers in pathological histology including directions for the performance of autopsies and for clinical diagnosis by laboratory methods / by Frank Burr Mallory and James Homer Wright.

  • Mallory, Frank Burr, 1862-1941.
Date:
[1911], ©1911
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Credit: Pathological technique : a practical manual for workers in pathological histology including directions for the performance of autopsies and for clinical diagnosis by laboratory methods / by Frank Burr Mallory and James Homer Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. This book is designed especially for practical use in pathological laboratories, both as a guide to beginners and as a source of reference for the advanced. We believe that the book will also meet the wants of practitioners who have more or less opportunity to do general pathological work. Every autopsy presents for solution a problem which may be simple or complex. The known quantities are certain clinical symptoms and physical signs; the unknown quan¬ tities are not only the gross and microscopic lesions that may or may not have given rise to the symptoms and signs, but also the etiology of the lesions and the order of their sequence. The solution of the problem often requires the highest skill in post-mortem, bacteriological, and histo¬ logical technique, but in its solution lies the fascination of pathological work. It has seemed advisable to us to present, so far as possible, a consecutive statement of the methods employed in solving the various problems that arise, so as to avoid the repetitions that necessarily occur when the three usual divisions of the subject are separately considered by different writers. It is hoped that this method of presenting the subject will bring the student to the realization that the mechanical per¬ formance of a post-mortem examination and the inspection of the gross lesions constitute usually only the beginning of the solution of the problem, which should be investigated