AbstractsBiology & Animal Science

A study of the tumors of the nervous system by the golgi method.

by Igor. Klatzo




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery.
Degree: MS.
Year: 1951
Keywords: Neurology & Neurosurgery.
Record ID: 1552389
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile118893.pdf


Abstract

It was a stroke of good fortune that Camillo Golgi, in 1872, examined some pieces of brain which were hardened in Muller's fluid and afterwards dipped in silver nitrate solution. As a result of this, Golgi developed a new method which was to bring about a new era in the investigation of the nervous system. [...]