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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    kept in the same jar. The best way to label them is to write the name or number on a piece of veg-etable parchment in ordinary “marking ink, and warm it until the writing is black. The little label should then be fixed to a corner of the piece of tissue with a stitch or by a fine pin, and it may be identified years afterwards. The impor- tance of keeping tissues, sections, slides, etc., dis- tinctly labelled cannot be too strongly impressed on the beginner. At first he will be inclined to neglect this as he will recognize his pieces of tissue and sections so readily merely by their shape and general appearance. But as time elapses and similar specimens accumulate, he will find it most difficult or even impossible to identify one from the other. The label should mention the date, the name of the organ, the hardening fluid etc. If a pathological specimen, the patient’s name, the name of the disease, and of the organs that are in the jar, and the date of the post- mortem, should be mentioned. A number of i oz. and 2 oz. stoppered bottles for staining reagents. The stopper of these should be fitted with a rod.