THE MICROSCOPE. 15 



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"THERE IS NO ROOM FOR ANOTHER JOURNAL." 



CERTAINLY no room for another medical journal, for we can 

 scarcely count the number now, and we fear that if we should 

 enter into the crowded field we should be trampled under foot and 

 forever lost. 



We do believe, however, that we are pioneers in the particular 

 line of this journal, and our success or failure will depend largely 

 upon the fact whether we have the pioneer pluck and perseverence, 

 backed by the proper amount of cerebral matter. 



We believe also that a field is ready for a journal of this charac- 

 ter, but that there has been a " long felt want " for it we most 

 assuredly do not believe. Neither do we believe the field ready for 

 us is either a large or lucrative one. 



We ask no more than the camel did ; "only to get our nose in," 

 resting upon the merits of our journal and upon the willingness of 

 those interested in microscopical work to aid us. This aid may be 

 one or all of three kinds ; by sending in the dollars ; by speaking a 

 good word for us ; and by contributing to our columns. 



It is a fact that there is scarcely a medical college but that is 

 more or less equipped with microscopes. Laboratory work is becom- 

 ing general the world over, and the graduates of the schools of to- 

 day are, as a rule, familiar with the manipulations and uses of these 

 instruments. 



We do not wish in the least to discuss or disparage the intelli- 

 gence of those professional men who have never used the micro- 

 scope, and who could not be induced to use it. They received their 

 early training in a different way, and are not acquainted with the 

 results to be obtained by a use of the instrument. 



" We have had our average, yes, more than average success, and 

 why try any experiments or run any risks ?" Yet we venture to say 

 that if this very class could spend six weeks in some of the micro- 

 scopical laboratories, and there practically study the pathology of 

 the secretions, excretions, and fluids of the body, see the diagnostic 

 value of a few fibres or a few crystals, they would be even more 



