Bone Canaliculi Research Articles

The impregnation of canaliculi in bone.

SYNOPSISA method is described by which bone canaliculi can be demonstrated by deposition within them of mercuric sulphide. The technique permits the preparation either of serial sections or of large numbers of specimens for teaching purposes.

Our Bodies

WE cannot highly commend this little book, though we would wish to speak well of its author. He is evidently a thoroughly good and earnest teacher; and we have no doubt his oral lessons are far better than his written book, which may be described as “Goody Lessons in Physiology, written in words of either one or of more than five syllables.” It consists of many terribly stony technicalities floating in a mass of very pappy information. On one page we find children warned, on physiological grounds, not to crack hard nuts with their teeth, and on another a description of the axis-cylinder of nerves, the white Substance of Schwann, and the canaliculi of bone. When will popular teachers of physiology and anatomy find out that these sciences are best taught free from technical hard nuts which splinter the enamel of the mind and worse? In not a few respects, too, we observe that “our bodies” of Mr. Davidson are not the same as our bodies.