“…Several publications have been presented during recent years describing the application of various scanning devices for automatic counting or differentiation of cells stained with fluorochromes (Mellors and Silver, 1951;Mellors, Glassman, and Papanicolaou, 1952;and Loeser and Berkley, 1954). Most of these publications describe studies performed on cells obtained from tissue sections or on cancer cells derived from the secretions of certain anatomic sites.…”