Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The work which I now present to the English medical public is, in the main, a condensed version of the second German edition (of 18 5 5) of my Handbuch der Gewebelehre but every material addition that has been made to Human Microscopical Anatomy, up to the present date, will be found incorporated in it. The book is, therefore, brought well up to the third German edition, that of 1859.