PART II.
SPECIAL CASES AND EXAMPLES.
482 a. It was originally my intention to take the student
in this Second Part, through the entire field of Histology and
Microscopic Zootomy, giving him detailed instructions for the
examination of all structures that have hitherto been studied,
and thus making him entirely independent of all help from a
teacher. I have abandoned that idea, partly on account of
the magnitude of the task, and partly because I no longer
think that such a work is necessary. I think that the
student who has mastered the principles of the methods set
out in the first part of this work should hardly be in need of
any help in the application of those methods, and I hope that
the classifications I have adopted and the explanations I
have given will suffice to make it easy to any student to
master those principles.
Nothing more is wanted, I think, than that the application
of general methods to very special cases, such as the study of
cell-division, or the Microtomy of the human brain, should be
discussed, and that some few hints be given as to the choice
of a method in all cases in which the matter is not quite
simple. In the following paragraphs I have discussed such
special cases as appeared to require discussion, and have