Pathology

In 1901, when Drs. Hektoen and Riesman published their "American Textbook of Pathology," they had the cooperation of seventeen authors to write on various sections in pathology. At that time it became clear to these authors that science, including medicine and pathology, has made such progress and has become enlarged to such an extent that it has become exceedingly difficult for one person to encompass the entire sphere. Hence, specialists with particular emphasis in a phase of investigation or teaching were called on to contribute chapters in their respective branches. In 1923, Aschoff published two volumes in pathologic anatomy with the assistance of sixteen authors. Here, again, the editor, a renowned pathologist, deemed it advisable to obtain various sections in pathology contributed by experts in their particular field. It is true that before and since the publication of textbooks by Hektoen and Riesman, and Aschoff, textbooks in pathology appeared by