A compendium of the anatomy of the human body : intended principally for the use of students / by Andrew Fyfe ; in two volumes ; vol. I[-II].

  • Fyfe, Andrew, 1754-1824.
Date:
1807
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Credit: A compendium of the anatomy of the human body : intended principally for the use of students / by Andrew Fyfe ; in two volumes ; vol. I[-II]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREPARATIONS WITH MINUTE INJECTION. BONES. The vascularity of bones is to be demonstrated, by throwing fine injection into an extremity, cutting out the bone wh Separating it from all the foft parts, immerfing it in wal few days, to foalc out the blood, and then putting it int > a mi - ture of muratic acid and water in the proportion of one ounce to a quart, for three or four months, adding about, every in .n:h a drachm of acid. The limb of a rkke'ty child is to be c Injection. Put a pipe into the largeft artery i«f the extr.-m'iy, and throw gradually the red injection into it, fixing the ftop-cock Hi the pipe. A FOETUS. Still-born children, when injected with minute injection, afford a number of beautiful preparations. Preparation. No water mould be thrown into the veffels. Fix a pipe with a ftop-cock into the umbilical vein, and tie the arte- ries in the ligature. Jr.jcBhn. Red injection is always chofen for this purpofe ; and throw it in with great care, until the abdomen and (kin all over become very tumid. Firft mucus comes from the nofe and mouth, then the meconium from the anus, and often pure lize. Diflefiion. Cut oft' the head from the moulders, the arms be- low the moulder joint, and the legs juft below the acetabu- lum j then prefcrve a fmall quantity of the integuments around the navel, and remove all the anterior parietes of the abdomen and chefr, fo as to exhibit the thoracic and abdominal vilccra. Cut away the integuments and pofterior part of the theca verte- bralis, to exhibit the medulla fpinalis. Preftyvatiori. Soak out the blood, and preferve it in proof fpirit, to fh-w the vifcera and their vascularity. From a wcll-injccrcd fcetus may be obtained the following preparations. !• If the fcrtus be about feven months old, the membrana pu- 2. If it be male of this age, the tefi'icle in the abdomen, with the gubtrnaculum 3. The vafcular and radiated fibres of the parietal bones. 4. The vafcular membrane, including the 5. Thcvifcira of the E«, if beUer injected than tkofe of the abdomen, Showing the vafcularity or the lungs, thy* inai 4asd_ and heart.