Vl PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



his disposal, but also to make such additions as hia 

 experience might suggest in extension of the use- 

 fulness of the book to a new class of readers, the 

 Medical Student, and the Junior Medical Practi- 

 tioner. To this end, besides other matter, a brief 

 prefatory chapter has been added, embracing the 

 elements of preliminary histological manipulation. 

 While claiming the indulgence of the elders of his 

 profession, the Editor feels that the best and truest 

 apology for this treatise, its raison d'etre in fact, 

 may be found in the words of its concluding para- 

 graph, to which the reader is now courteously 

 referred. 



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