Excerpt from Methods of Morbid Histology and Clinical Pathology With small pieces of tissue removed during operations, etc., which are not easily recognised because of the absence of the usual landmarks, it is sometimes useful to make sections in two or more different directions, so as to ulti mately examine the tissue in the correct plane. Microscopical examinations may be made with fresh, untreated objects, or with Objects which have been passed through certain manipulations, viz., hardening and imbedding in media, which facilitate the preparation of thin sections. 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.