The Golgi Stain, circa 1873 :The Scientist [2009-08-01]


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	By Moheb Costandi

The Golgi Stain, circa 1873 More than three decades after the German biologists Theodore Schwann and Matthias Schleiden first proposed that the cell was the basic functional unit of all living things, in 1838, many of the world’s leading histologists still disagreed about the fine structure of the nervous system. Some maintained that the brain was also made