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On Growth and Form

Note 338 — Chapter VI · A NOTE ON ADSORPTION

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The reader will recognise that there is a fundamental difference, and contrast, between such experiments as these of Professor Macallum’s and the ordinary staining processes of the histologist. The latter are (as a general rule) purely empirical, while the former endeavour to reveal the true microchemistry of the cell. “On peut dire que la microchimie n’est encore qu’à la période d’essai, et que l’avenir de l’histologie et spécialement de la cytologie est tout entier dans la microchimie” (Prenant, A., Méthodes et résultats de la Microchimie, Journ. de l’Anat. et de la Physiol. XLVI, pp. 343–404, 1910).

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