Practical pathology : a manual for students and practitioners / by G. Sims Woodhead.
- Woodhead, G. Sims (German Sims), Sir, 1855-1921.
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical pathology : a manual for students and practitioners / by G. Sims Woodhead. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![LIST OF REAGENTS. Eight dozen extra thin circular cover glasses, fa inch in diameter. Five or six dozen do. do. 1 % inch diameter. One ounce square cover glasses for use when Canada balsam is the mounting medium. These, of course, may be replaced from time to time as they are used, but it is well to have at least these numbers, if the student intends to examine the various morbid tissues which come under his notice. k. Labels for the slides. /. A small box for carrying six or a dozen slides, and a cabinet to hold the above ten dozen slides, should be obtained, in order that the specimens may be kept clean and well arranged. N. B.—The slides on which sections are mounted should always be kept flat, and in trays, not boxes. m. A soft linen cloth. An old pocket handkerchief is, perhaps, the best cloth one can use. n. A couple of black lead pencils—HB. and HHHH. Half a dozen lithographic pens. A small box of moist colours, with brushes. Some ordinary mounts to be cut into drawing cards. 0. A packet of white filter papers. A freezing microtome (§ 68, p. 49). 31. The following reagents, which should be in one-ounce glass- stoppered bottles. Those marked R should have a glass rod nearly as long as the bottle fused into the glass stopper. The end of this rod must be well rounded, not pointed. Those marked W should be in wide-mouthed glass-stoppered bottles. REAGENTS IN GENERAL USE. For staining tissues :— R. Picro-carmine staining fluid (§ 73, p. 53). Logwood staining fluid (§ 74, p. 56). R. Carmine do. do. (§ 75, p. 58). Methyl aniline violet (§ 76, p. 59). R. Iodine staining fluid (§ 77, p. 61). Eosine TV % solution (§ 79, p. 62). W. Osmic acid ]/z % solution, in bottle covered with brown paper (§ 80, p. 62). Other reagents :— Acetic acid, 1 to 4 (§ 93, p. 68).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20388032_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
