Practical Pathology
A Manual of Autopsy and LaboratoryTechnique
FOR
STUDENTS AND PHYSICIANS
BY
ALDRED SCOTT WARTHIN, Ph.D., M. D.
Professor of Pathology and Director of the Pathologic Laboratories
IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN,
ANN ARBOR
SECOND EDITION
Rewritten and Enlarged
Mortui Vivos Docent
310 PAGES AND 55 FIGURES
ANN ARBOR
GEORGE WAHR, Publisher
1911
Copyright 1897, by George Wahr
Copyright 1911, by George Wahr
ERRATA.
Page 155.—Thickness of gall-bladder wall 1-2 mm. instead of 1-2 cm.
Page 240.—Langhans’ for Langhan’s.
Page 264.—v. Kossa instead of Kossa.
Page 295.—v. Kölliker instead of Kölliker.
HERRN PROFESSOR ALEXANDER KOLISKO
Zur Erinnerung
an die ertragreichen, im Sektions-saale des
Wiener allgemeinen Krankenhauses
zugebrachten Sommertage
der Jahre
1893, 1894, 1895
gewidmet.
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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
The first edition of this book, in spite of numerous typographicerrors beyond the control of the writer, was very soon exhausted.An apology is due the many, to whom, during the last ten years, anew edition has been repeatedly promised. The writer’s only excusefor the failure to fulfill these promises has been the pressure of otherwork that has prevented such fulfillment. In the final accomplishmentof these promises the book has been practically rewritten andmore than doubled in size.
The autopsy method given in the main text is a composite one,made up from the Rokitansky, Virchow, Chiari and Nauwerckmethods, according to the judgment of the writer as to what wasthe best in these, and put together with modifications and additionsarising out of his own experience. The aim has been to offer amethod by which an autopsy can be performed with the greatestspeed and ease, and at the same time with the greatest completeness,the various steps of the operation following in logical orderin such a way that nothing can be lost or destroyed, and therebyrevealing a complete picture of the pathologic conditions present.A choice of methods is offered whenever the aims of the examinationmay be so varied as to make variations in method advantageous.The general order of the autopsy is the same as that given in theProtocol Blank-book, the present book being designed as a guideand reference-book for that. T