authoe's preface to the first edition, vii 



integral constituent, but as the true centre of the entire domain 

 of pathological morphology. The following treatise was under- 

 taken from this point of view ; attention has accordingly been 

 directed to the pathological histology in the first place, while 

 the coarser data of morbid anatomy are relegated to the second. 

 For the benefit of my colleagues, I may add that this book 

 was written in the laboratory rather than in the study. The 

 number of original investigations which it embodies, must serve 

 to atone for the absence of an exhaustive and uniform treat- 

 ment of individual topics. 



