Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Bold text displayed as: =bold= Practical Pathology A Manual of Autopsy and Laboratory Technique FOR STUDENTS AND PHYSICIANS BY ALDRED SCOTT WARTHIN, Ph.D., M. D. Professor of Pathology and Director of the Pathologic Laboratories IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR SECOND EDITION Rewritten and Enlarged MORTUI VIVOS DOCENT 310 PAGES AND 55 FIGURES ANN ARBOR GEORGE WAHR, PUBLISHER 1911 Copyright 1897, by GEORGE WAHR Copyright 1911, by GEORGE WAHR ERRATA. Page 155.—Thickness of gall-bladder wall 1-2 mm. instead of 1-2 cm. Page 240.—Langhans’ for Langhan’s. Page 264.—v. Kossa instead of Kossa. Page 295.—v. Kölliker instead of Kölliker. HERRN PROFESSOR ALEXANDER KOLISKO Zur Erinnerung an die ertragreichen, im Sektions-saale des Wiener allgemeinen Krankenhauses zugebrachten Sommertage der Jahre 1893, 1894, 1895 gewidmet. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The first edition of this book, in spite of numerous typographic errors beyond the control of the writer, was very soon exhausted. An apology is due the many, to whom, during the last ten years, a new edition has been repeatedly promised. The writer’s only excuse for the failure to fulfill these promises has been the pressure of other work that has prevented such fulfillment. In the final accomplishment of these promises the book has been practically rewritten and more than doubled in size. The autopsy method given in the main text is a composite one, made up from the Rokitansky, Virchow, Chiari and Nauwerck methods, according to the judgment of the writer as to what was the best in these, and put together with modifications and additions arising out of his own experience. The aim has been to offer a method by which an autopsy can be performed with the greatest speed and ease, and at the same time with the greatest completeness, the various steps of the operation following in logical order in such a way that nothing can be lost or destroyed, and thereby revealing a complete picture of the pathologic conditions present. A choice of methods is offered whenever the aims of the examination may be so varied as to make variations in method advantageous. The general order of the autopsy is the same as that given in the Protocol Blank-book, the present book being designed as a guide and reference-book for that. The points to be noted in the examination of each region are given in connection with the method of examination of that region, and represent the condensed special pathology of the latter. This should be of great service to the beginner in autopsy work, as affording a concise but complete guide to the most important conditions of each region. A textbook on Special Pathology should be used as a reference book in connection with these condensed statements of special pathology.