Specification of John Morgan : embalming and curing.

  • Morgan, John.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Specification of John Morgan : embalming and curing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * • * « * • *' f' ' ,fc ' -V • 6 A.D. 1863.—N° 412. Specification. Morgans Improvements in Embalming Bodies and Curing Carcases. right down the centre, passing in the fingers at the incision and clearing away the fat and the two mannuary veins which run pretty close on each side ; open the bag containing the heart, when the right auricular appendage will be seen full of dark colored blood ; make an incision into the nearest part, its tip if possible, a snip with a pair of scissors being the best, when the blood 5 will rush out, also directly plunge the scissors into the left ventricle and make an opening, when blood will rush out. Then lay the animal on its belly for a few minutes or so, and afterwards or hang it up by a chain attached to the hind legs for a few minutes, when the blood will be run off. The animal should then be scalded or singed, as may be required ; if singed, a wet cloth should be 10 introduced into tbe opening made in the flesh ; enlaige, if necessary, the incision in the left ventricle, that is, at tbe animal’s left side of the furrow on the front of the heart, and pass a pipe twelve inches or so in length into the aorta or great vessel which leads from this cavity ; pass a stout double twine under this vessel close to the heart where the finger and thumb can meet, and 15 tie it securely (it will be found that the twine includes the aorta or large vessel with the pipe in it, and another vessel in front of the aorta leading to the lungs); the end of the pipe should not be inserted more than an inch or so into the vessel, and this pipe is to be furnished within two inches of the outer end with a stop-cock, over which the ends of the twine are to be hitched in 20 order to prevent the pipe from slipping out of its place. The outer end must have a coupling to fit another stop-cock, having a pipe two inches in length or more at either side, one end for coupling and the other to fit into an india- rubber tubing of from half an inch to one inch in diameter, and to be well tied on; the india-rubber tubing to be six or eight feet long, and sufficient lead 25 pipe provided to connect it with a vessel situate twelve to eighteen feet above the level of the table on which the animal is placed; introduce into this vessel half a gallon of a saturated solution of common salt and two ounces of nitre dissolved in it, and the whole well strained (in very cold weather, or where the animal is some time dead, heated to ninety or eighty degrees), but 30 in ordinary temperature cold, if temperature above sixty degrees this pickle should be artificially cooled below freezing; connect the coupling and open the stop-cock to the india-rubber tube, in order to permit the air contained between it and the second stop-cock, which is turned off, to escape; the air can be seen escaping upwards in the form of a bubble if a piece of glass tube be 35 inseited in this india-rubber tubing; both stop-cocks may now be opened by degrees, when tbe fluid will be seen rushing out at the incision in the ear or auricular appendix or cavity where the first cut was made; when run through, 7 o >