A Koelliker's Handbuchder Gewebelehre des Menschen-Sechste umgearbeitete Auflage

Abstract

FOR the first time in its history the “Handbook of Histology” of the famous Würzburg professor of anatomy appears with the name of an editor upon its title-page in place of the octogenarian master whose book, when it first made its appearance in the 'forties, created an epoch in the history of histological literature, and was made familiar to English readers by its translation by George Busk and Thomas Henry Huxley. The work was a mine of original investigation, and served for many-years as a quarry which furnished the materials for the building up of many an account of the structure of the body, in which the source of information was too often, it is to be feared, ignored. In later editions the general style of the bock became somewhat altered, as it became necessary for the author to refer to facts regarding microscopic structure which were becoming added by others as well as by himself; and it must be admitted that, while the book thereby accumulated a greater amount of information, it became less readable and unquestionably less original. Nevertheless, the parts of this last edition which have already appeared have fully maintained the place which v. Kölliker's “Gewebelehre” had taken as the first authority upon the subject of which it treats.

A. Koelliker's Handbuchder Gewebelehre des Menschen-Sechste umgearbeitete Auflage.

Dritter Band. Von Victor v. Ebner. Erste Hälfte. Verdauungs-organe, Respirations-organe, &c. Pp. vi + 402. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1899.)