Classics in arteriosclerosis research: On experimental cholesterin steatosis and its significance in the origin of some pathological processes by N. Anitschkow and S. Chalatow, translated by Mary Z. Pelias, 1913.

I often happens in the history of science that researchers, guided by quite different basic concepts and using different methods, obtain results which can be unexpectedly synthesized to produce interesting conclusions and which require us to view scientific questions in a new light. The very fact that we start with a diversity of viewpoints and observations strengthens our conclusions and gives them scientific validity. In recent years such a fortunate situation is apparently starting to affect our thinking about cholesterin metabolism and storage. Data from different medical disciplines, particularly pathological histology, physiological chemistry, and clinical observations, are leading to a gratifying consensus about the importance of cholesterin in the animal body. Only one aspect of this exceptionally interesting theory has not yet received sufficient attention, namely, the possibility of studying these problems using the methods of experimental pathology. These