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By Henry Harris. 212 pp., illustrated. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1999. $30. ISBN 0-300-07384-4.

The Birth of the Cell is a thorough, scholarly, and informative book on the development and establishment of the theory of cellular structure in plants and animals. It covers the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries and parallels the development of the light microscope and techniques of preparing biologic tissues for microscopical examination.

Harris was dissatisfied with many of the standard accounts of the origin of the cell doctrine that appear in textbooks and writings on the history of medicine. Matthias Schleiden, Theodor Schwann, and Rudolf Virchow are names that dominate historical accounts of the cell doctrine, but many others . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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