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cannot but find fields for new study, and learn much from the read- 

 ing alone. 



Slide No. 1 consisted of a transverse section of tendon showing 

 all the histological relations with great minuteness. 



Slide No. 2 contains a section of fatty tissue, in tke cells of 

 which are some fat globules and stearine crystals; the adipose tis- 

 sue is beautifully seen, and the staining makes the tissue appear 

 clear and distinct. 



It is worth while to use the polariscope when examining the 

 stearine crystals. 



Following each specimen is the mode of preparation and stain- 

 ing the tissue. 



EDITORIAL. 



PUBLISHEKS' NOTICE. 



It is not without some feelings of pride that we send this edi- 

 tion to so large a number of new readers ; the actual number of 

 copies issued this month is sixty-two thousand, (62,000) those 

 additional to our regular subscribers being sent to the physicians 

 and surgeons throughout the United States and Canada. 



We should not undertake the general introduction of The 

 Microscope to the medical profession had we not perfect confidence 

 in the ability of the gentlemen in charge of the editorial department 

 to make this the leading Microscopical journal of our country, and 

 to render it of particular interest and value to their ):rother practi- 

 tioners, as well as to the special student of microscopy. 



We wish to acknowledge courtesies received from the several 

 gentlemen with whom we have been associated in the issue of this 

 special edition, and to our advertisers we are particularly indebted 

 for their words of encouragement, and for their substantial support 

 in carrying into effect the particular plan we had adopted. 



THE CLINICAL IMPORTANCE OF BACTERIOLOGICAL 

 INVESTIGATIONS. 



We believe that few physicians as yet appreciate the practical 

 value of examinations of secretions and tissues for micro-organ- 

 isms. We are on the eve of an era in clinical medicine in which 

 bacteriological investigations are to occupy as important a position 

 for the purposes of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, as the 

 physical examination of the chest and the analysis of urine do at 

 the present time, and it behooves every physician who hopes to keep 



