Practical pathology : a manual for students and practitioners / by G. Sims Woodhead.
- Date:
- 1885
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical pathology : a manual for students and practitioners / by G. Sims Woodhead. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![An achromatic condenser, Powell & Leland's oil condenser, or an Abbe's illuminator, is essential when micro-organisms are to be studied. A microscopic parafifin lamp, with a blue glass chimney, or, what answers equally well, an argand gas burner fitted with the blue glass chimney. (This combination may be obtained for about 7s 6d.)^ A micrometer eye-piece and a stage micrometer. A camera lucida, the best and cheapest of which is made by Nachet of Paris. 30. The following apparatus will also be required :— a. A razor and a couple of scalpels, similar to those already ; ro- cured. (See § i.) b. Three or four strong needles firmly set in hardwood handles. These should be quite smooth, free from rust, the point per- fect, and not hooked or twisted. c. A couple of pairs of scissors; one pair straight and ])robe- pointed, the other pair sharp-pointed and curved on thtr flat. Those used by ophthalmic surgeons answer the purpose ad- mirably. d. A copper lifter, with a stem about three and three-quarter inches long, and two blades; one about i inch x ^ inch, and the other inch x ^ inch. The stem should be flat, and the blades, continuous with it, very thin, so that they may be bent to form any angle. The edges must be perfect y rounded and smooth. e. Six or a dozen deep watch glasses. f. Two or three test glasses and half a dozen test tubes. g. Half a dozen white earthenware pint basins, and three or four rounded shallow glass trays or capsules. (These lafer are especially useful in staining tubercle bacilli, &c. They may be replaced by what are known in the glass trade as clock glasses.) h. Two or three small glass tube pipettes, for removing fluids of various kinds from the edges of the cover glasses after sections have been mounted. * A small electric lamp, giving a good white light, is now made, which answers admirably for microscopic work.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963368_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
