The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of Microscopy, Volume 81888 |
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Page 58 - Retrogressive is as practicable as progressive metamorphosis. If what the physical philosophers tell us, that our globe has been in a state of fusion, and, like the sun, is gradually cooling down, is true ; then the time must come when evolution will mean adaptation to...
Page 30 - ... consider the better plan, or at least remove from it the faults in method to which we have made objection. The good qualities possessed by the main part of the book — the examples themselves— would then render the volume one of undoubted value alike to students and teachers of elementary algebra. REA The Student's Hand-book to the Microscope : a Practical Guide to its Selection and Management. By A Quekett Club Man.
Page 115 - Allow the blood and acid to stand over night, and then wash the acid away with distilled water. Add alcohol, then clove oil, in which the blood may be kept indefinitely. Before the alcohol is added the nucleus of the corpuscle may be stained in alum-carmine, the blood afterwards being washed ; or the whole corpuscle may be stained in anilin blue.
Page 197 - ... that it is safe to inoculate, as he has already done, persons from the age of two years upwards. Many of the persons inocu'ated by him have been exposed to yellow-fever, and in no case has the fever attacked them. GELATINE LIQUEFACTION BY BACTERIA. — Dr. Sternberg has been studying the liquefaction of gelatine by bacteria, and has ascertained that it is due to a soluble chemical product which is formed during the active growth of the liquefying organisms, and that a comparatively small amount...
Page 10 - Keys is a fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Royal Society of Canada.
Page 204 - ELEMENTS OF THE COMPARATIVE ANATOMY OF VERTEBRATES. Adapted from the German of ROBERT WIEDERSHEIM, Professor of Anatomy, and Director of the Institute of Human and Comparative Anatomy in the University of Freiburg-in-Baden, by W.
Page 26 - STAMMERING. — At a recent meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History, Dr Warren stated, 'A simple, easy, and effectual cure of stammering.' It is, simply, at every syllable pronounced, to tap at the same time with the finger; by so doing, 'the most inveterate stammerer will be surprised to find that he can pronounce quite fluently, and, by long and constant practice, he...
Page 24 - Grenadier's alum carmine for two or three hours, or better for a week or more. As the results of this the tendon bundles swell up and become transparent, and the cells appear beautifully stained, the elastic fibres standing out very clearly. By placing the tendon in a saturated solution of potash or ammonia alum, and afterwards staining in...
Page 160 - Ohio physician who brought home for microscopic examination a portion of the throat membrane of a diphtheria victim, and permitted his children to look at it under a glass cover. Shortly after his entire family was stricken with diphtheria, and since two of the children and himself have died.
Page 110 - ... which gradually increases in size and quantity, and extends across the entire object, the white line being at first broader in the middle but gradually widening until it completely and clearly separates the two pole (coccoid) ends, and the mature object is again presented to our view. (Fig. 6.) We have thus described the normal or general cycle of development of the micro-etiological organisms of the American, English, and German swine plagues, the American southern cattle pingue, hen cholera,...