The Microscope 



AND ITS RELATION TO 



Medicine and Pharmacy. 



Vol. 1. 



Ann Arbor, August, 1881. 



No. 3. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Original Communioations. 



Use of the Microscope in Gross Ana- 

 tomy. By T. B. Stowell, A. M., 

 Pii. D 65 



The Urinary Phosphates. By Geo. S. 

 Heath, M. D 68 



From Cartilage to Bone, as seen by 

 the Microscope. By John H. Lob- 

 dell, M. D 72 



Coprespondence. 



Letter from Paris 74 



The Microscope as an Aid to Correct 

 Diagnosis in Certain Diseases of the 

 Skin 75 



PAGE. 



Editorial Department. 



The Microscope in Skin Diseases 76 



Editorial Briefs 77-79 



Selections 80 



I terns 87 



Reviews 94 



What Our Exchanges Say 96 



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USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN GROSS ANATOMY. 



BY T. B. STOWELL, A. M., PH. D. 



HISTOLOGY has been called one of the corner-stones of medi- 

 cine. The time has passed when the value of the revelations 

 of the microscope could reasonably be doubted. While all are now 

 ready to admit the necessity of its use in the study of the minute 

 structure of tissues, some are not willing to acknowledge that it is 

 any help to the ordinary anatomist. The successful manipulation 

 of high powers is indeed something of a task and requires special 

 training and practice ; but the use of low powers is easily learned 

 and would often produce valuable results. The student of ordinary 

 or gross anatomy frequently reaches the limit of research by the un- 



