The anatomist's instructor, and museum companion : being practical directions for the formation and subsequent management of anatomical museums / by Frederick John Knox.

  • Knox, Frederick John.
Date:
1836
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    however great the quantity of muscle may be^ is sim- ply to dry itj having previously cleared it as effectually as possible of bloody and soaked it well with spirits of wine. During the winter months a little mould will often make its appearance, even in the best arranged museums ; but this can be instantly removed by means of turpentine applied with a brush. In summer, air should be freely admitted to the cases containing the preparations, and turpentine freely applied. If oil should appear on any part, it may be removed by means of a little tow. I have now in my possession vascular prepa- rations preserved in this manner ten years ago, and which look quite as well as when prepared, and, I may add, as well as any I have had an opportunity of examining. The Barclayan Museum was very rich in vascular pre- parations, and, having had it under my care for a length of time, I observed that all these preparations had been varnished. The insects were abundant, but not so nu- merous as in the collection to which I have already al- luded. The greater proportion of those in the Barclayan museum were intended to shew the number of minute branches into which arteries divide, having all the mus- cles, nerves, &c., cut away, so that little was left for in- sects to pick at. Another set of vascular preparations, of very superior utility to the minutely dissected ones, had suffered prodigiously from insects, the material used in filling the vessels having mostly been composed of tallow. 5. The sole object, in my opinion, which the anato- mist should keep in view in preserving portions of the human body as vascular dried preparations, ought to be the Surgical Anatomy, or that of Relation. These pre- parations, however, can never supersede the use of the subject in the lecture-room; and to the surgeon properly educated, a good plate is a thousand times more handy, and quite as useful, as an ill-prepared mummy. 6. The greater proportion of morbid appearances, and