ABSTRACT
Every year as it passes away leaves behind it additional testimony to the fact that the microscope is advancing to occupy a position of importance in medical practice equal to that which the stethoscope has attained ; and I feel satisfied that ere many more years have passed the regular employment of the microscope, as a means of diagnosis, will be maintained and duly acknowledged. The slow but steady progress which the use of this instrument has made in the hands of the medical profession should tend to point rather to the important nature of the results to which it is destined to lead us, than to accepting the doubts of some who occasionally assail its employment, and are unable or unwilling to avail themselves of its powers.
Read before the Medical Society of Victoria, December 6, 1865.
‘Watt’s Chemical Dictionary,’ vol. ii, p. 221, “Some of the compounds called Prussian blue have the composition of cyanides of iron; they appear to be double cyanides.”
Virchow’s ‘Cellular Pathology,’ p. 371, &c.