Excerpt from A Course in Normal Histology, Vol. 1: A Guide for Practical Instruction in Histology and Microscopic Anatomy If this were the only object, it would suffice to assign a number of good specimens to the student, to discuss them thoroughly with him, and to let him reproduce them with the pencil on paper. But such is not the case. Our course of instruction has a secondary aim, equally important and a good deal more p'ractical, viz., to initiate the student in micro-technique, which latter is of the greatest importance for advanced study as well as general practical education. At the present day the microscope is probably the most important and necessary requisite of a medical instrumentarium. A thorough training is needed for handling it in the proper manner, and the basis of this training rests with the histologic course, at the end of which the student should be thoroughly familiar with the microscope and its use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.