The preservation of anatomical material by carbolic acid / Robert J. Terry.

  • Terry, Robert J. (Robert James), 1871-1966.
Date:
1905
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Credit: The preservation of anatomical material by carbolic acid / Robert J. Terry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    oration does take place we think is largely by the mouth and nose when these are not sealed.* A number of years ago Dr. Todd, of this city, stored bodies in an ice-box covering them with cedar sawdust which had been moistened with a solution of carbolic acid. These bodies did not dry and we are considering storing our material in a small room covered in the same way. This process offers some advantages in its simiDlicity and cleanliness over the method of wrapping in vaseline and oil-skin. The use of tanks for storage has never appealed to us much largely on account of the difficulty in keeping the solutions clean and free from mould and because of the disagreeable features at- tending the handling of the material. So simple, clean and effective a fluid as 3 per cent carbolic acid which Professor Mall is using is, however, a strong inducement to go from the dry to the wet method of storing. * Mucous membranes are dry in bodies preserved in carbolic acid which is a matter for regret. The mouth and nose should be stuffed with tow soaked in glycerine and the lips stitched together. Dr. Blair has found that the introduction into the urethra of a cotton wick soaked in paraffine will keep the canal in a condition to allow subsequently the passage of a sound.