A manual of histology / edited and prepared by Thomas E. Satterthwaite, in association with Thomas Dwight [and others].

Date:
1881
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Credit: A manual of histology / edited and prepared by Thomas E. Satterthwaite, in association with Thomas Dwight [and others]. 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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    w MANUAL OF HISTOLOGY. two ; a spoon (Fig. 4) for lifting sections of tissues from the fluids in which they have been immersed ; a pair of nee.dles (Fig. 0) in handles for teasing or tearing tissues; (the handles used for crochet needles, or the pin-slides sold by jewelers, may be fitted with ordinary milliner’s needles, which are long, delicate, and flexible, and therefore well adapted for this Fig. 5. —Microscopic Needle-holder. work) a sable or camel's hair brush for removing cellular elements, so as to bring particular parts into prominence ; bibu- lous paper ; a sharp knife (Fig. 6) for cutting thin sections ; 1 1 For this purpose the razors made by Le Coultre, in Geneva, have been highly recommended, but good knives may be obtained of almost any cutler ; indeed, most of the makers of surgical instruments furnish them ; they are usually flat on one side and slightly concave on the other.