The Rapid Golgi Method. Indian Summer or Renaissance?

Abstract

It is not unreasonably maintained that the golden days of Golgi morphology were already numbered by the turn of the century. The great flowering of descriptive histology in the hands of Golgi, Cajal, Van Gehuchten, Lenhossek, Held, Retzius, P. Ramon, and others was the kind of phenomenon which can only occur at one stage in the life of a powerful investigative technique. Once the maximal exploitation of its powers had occurred and “the cream was skimmed”, a more realistic assessment of its role in neurologic research was possible. It could then become part of the technological armamentarium available to all investigators and might expect the continued, if less heralded, utilization it had earned.

Supported by U.S.P.H.S. Grant 01063, N.I.N.D.S.

We wish to thank Miss Lore Liepmann for her help in preparation of the histological material.