Section cutting and staining : a practical guide to the preparation of normal and morbid histological specimens / by Walter S. Colman.

  • Colman, Walter S.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Section cutting and staining : a practical guide to the preparation of normal and morbid histological specimens / by Walter S. Colman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    invaluable. It will also effect a great saving if articles that are used in any quantity, such as methylated spirit, distilled water, etc., are bought by the gallon, and not in small quantities. Almost all the processes described here can be carried out without the use of a fully equipped laboratory, in fact, in an ordinary room. The only furniture required is a firm table, and a cup- board for storing reagents. The following should also be procured:— Jars or bottles, with well fitting stoppers or corks, to contain the tissues while being hardened. They should not hold less than two ounces. Empty drug bottles which can usually be obtained from druggists for a few pence, serve very well. Smaller bottles should also be procured for keeping specimens in spirit after they have been hardened until one is ready to cut sections. After sections have been cut from a portion of the specimen, the rest should be preserved, in case it is wanted for further investigation. Each speci- men must be labelled, with a name or a number corresponding to a reference in the note-book, and a large number of specimens may then be