> > The edition of the "AFIP Manual" - Manual of Histologic Staining Methods > of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Third Edition - most of us are > familiar with was edited by Lee G. Luna. I recall buying a copy of it in > 1968 when I was a resident. I now have a copy of what I think is the last > printing, which I bought in 1992. >
Googling it, I found that this book is long out of print, extremely scarce and expensive, and I'm not sure it's available online. I think it should be reprinted, or at least made available online. (I note that Dezna Sheehan's somewhat later book is also out of print.) The publication history of the AFIP manual before 1968 is rather murky. The "first edition", never formally published, was loose mimeographed notes written by (Miss) Mary Francis Gridley (1908-1954), which after her early death (of acute leukemia) was published with no definite authorship in 1957, and probably revised in 1960. I recall seeing this edition more than 50 years ago, but don't remember the color of the cover. I can't find an online record of the 1960 edition. The 1957 edition is available online from Google Books at https://tinyurl.com/y8wosf2j Apparently there was a 4th edition in 1992, but I found no record of it. Histotechnologists in my day regarded the book as well-nigh scriptural. It was not a very satisfactory reference for a pathologist, since it did not go into detail either on theory or on interpretation. I much preferred R.D. Lillie's Histologic Technic and Practical Histochemistry (3rd ed., 1965), but it wasn't formatted for practical use as a manual. I have several more books of that vintage, none entirely satisfactory. Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist Maryville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet