Haemocytes and haemic infections : a hand-book for students and practitioners

Front matter

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Introduction

This volume is offered to the student and general reader, with the feeling, that a beginning only is made with the subjects of which it treats. H?emocytes and haemic infections, embraced in the subject of Haematology, is one of which the greater part is yet to be told.

In the compilation of this volume, it has been the author's desire to present a certain amount of information, in a readable and acceptable form; no pretension is made to a complete treatise.

Attention has been directed to the relation, which the pathological changes bear to the physical signs.

The nomenclature adopted is one which may be readily understood and remembered.

In presenting the illustrations contained herein, the author feels that many of the difficulties, attending satis¬ factory microphotographic reproductions, have been over¬ come. The microphotograms have been taken at a mag¬ nification, which would clearly set forth the morphological characters of cells and parasites, as seen in the blood, in various phases of disease.

In the preparation of the text, every effort has been made to give investigators credit for original observations, and discoveries. It is probable that, in some instances, credit for original research is not given to those entitled to it. If such be the case, and it should happen that this volume is of sufficient merit to warrant future editions, this oversight will be generously corrected.

The microscopical material received from friends and correspondents in all parts of the world, has been of in¬ valuable assistance, and is gratefully acknowledged.