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1842 London & Edinb. Monthly Jrnl. Med. Sci. Aug. 787 Now every histologist is aware, that, with the exception of white of egg, there is no fluid which tends to preserve the blood globule in its normal state so well as a weak solution of the sulphate of soda.

1859 J. Tomes Syst. Dental Surg. 289 Few subjects have engaged the attention of histologists more frequently..than the development of dentine.

1881 Nature 10 Nov. 25/1 The medical histologist and physiologist has learnt that..he must not confine himself, as hitherto, to the limited area of comparison offered by the chick, the frog, and the rabbit.

1922 S. Lewis Babbitt vii. 100 At that moment Seneca Doane, the radical lawyer, and Dr. Kurt Yavitch, the histologist.., were talking in Doane's library.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1316/2 A histologist will provide an exhaustive description of particular morphological elements.

2004 Independent (Nexis) 22 Mar. (Features section) 5 If someone is waiting for a transplant and a kidney comes up, you have to go in immediately... So even histologists get called out in the middle of the night occasionally.