ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IN RELATION TO THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
Authors: S MUDD
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1949)

Article1 October 1949ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IN RELATION TO THE MEDICAL SCIENCESSTUART MUDD, M.D.STUART MUDD, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-31-4-570 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail Excerpt"L'infinité de la petitesse," in the words of Blaise Pascal, includes extensive areas whose submicroscopic dimensions render them inaccessible to light microscopy but which are accessible to exploration with the electron microscope. It is the purpose of the present article to survey very briefly these areas within the medical sciences. 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