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Title: The diagnosis of diseases of women
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Findley Palmer. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d permanently to the front of thestand, and consists of an accurately cut micrometer screw having a pitch of 0.5 mm., witha graduated head divided to 100 parts, each graduation, therefore, having a value of 5microns. The object clamp is adjustable in two planes, and can be set for paraffin orcelloidin cutting. zylol and paraffin, or in chloroform and paraffin, for from two totwenty-four hours, and is kept at a uniform temperature of 37° C.Next the specimen is immersed in melted paraffin for a like timeand kept at a temperature of 48° to 50° C. It is then removed to acool place and is quickly solidified in the paraffin, after which it isblocked out with a knife and mounted on a cork for cutting. MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION OF SCRAPINGS 99 METHOD OF STAINING AND MOUNTING SECTIONS. Gelloidin Sections. For all practical purposes the hsematoxylin-eosin stain is most satisfactory. After cutting the sections andimmersing them in water for a few moments, the following methodis adopted: Fig. 23
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Lines of incision in opening the uterus after hysterectomy. 1. Stain in hsematoxylin one to two minutes. 2. Decolorize in acid alcohol. 3. Immerse in weak ammonium-water until the blue colorreturns. 4. Immerse in water to remove the ammonium. 5. Counterstain in eosin from ten to thirty seconds. 6. Immerse in 75 per cent, alcohol two minutes. 7. Absolute alcohol one minute. - .. 8. Clear in creosote or oil of cloves. 9. Mount in Canada balsam. L.ofC, 100 GENERAL DIAGNOSIS Paraffin Sections. After cutting the sections they are carefullytransferred to a shallow basin of warm water, on which they spreadin thin ribbons. The water must not be hot enough to melt theparaffin, but merely sufficiently so to unfold the sections and spreadthem out smoothly. A glass slide is held underneath the sections,and they are made to float upon the slide. The slide is then with-drawn from the water, the water drained off, and is then placed forseveral hours on the top of an oven or radiator, where the moist

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