A practical treatise on the use of the microscope, including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable, and mineral structures (1848)
Quekett, John, 1815-1861 · London, H. Bailliere · leaf 359
fittedfor making long incisions in larger animals, and C for boththese purposes, and for transverse sections of soft parts aswell. In the absence of these, the scalpels employed in themedical schools may be used; these, however, are, generallyspeaking, far too large for all purposes; the small… … Fig. 211. Fig. 210. Valentins Knife.—One of the most frequentoperations in microscopical investigations is themaking of fine sections ; for this purpose the scal-pels before noticed, or a razor may be employed ,but for large substances that are soft like the liver,spleen, and kidney, the…
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