Some considerations regarding microscopical technique

✍ Scribed by McClung, C. E.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1918
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 914 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-276X
• DOI: 10.1002/ar.1090140502

✦ Synopsis

It has been said that the discovery of a new method may do more to advance science than the enunciation of a new principle. If this may, with any truth, be asserted of one method how really significant must be the comprehension of the technical aggregate upon which a science rests! Microscopical technique is variously regarded by. biologists. To some it is an end in itself-a sufficient field for the exercise of all the powers of the investigator; to others it is a necessary evil to be endured only so far as it makes apparently sdtisfactory returns for the time spent. An exclusive acceptance of either position is a mistake leading to indifferent results. Technique is a tool, but an indispensable one, and, as yet, but imperfectly developed. It needs most careful study and merits all the care and attention we can devote to it.