Bailey's Text-book of Histology

The reviewer hopes that the reader will forgive the following personal observation. No "short course," however well presented, can give a student the training that a good year-long course can give. No one is more aware of this than is Professor Hitchcock, as the preface to the first edition will testify. The reviewer is disturbed by the fact that the majority of biological scientists, if they take any training in physical chemistry at all, limit such training to a short course. This is today no more adequate than would be, for example, a short course in histology or physiology. The serious student of biology or medicine should be urged to find time in his schedule for a year's course in physical chemistry as it is usually presented in departments of chemistry.