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 366
to the subject. The dissections in which the microscope is most frequentlyemployed, are those of the nervous system, either in smallanimals or in minute parts of the larger ones; for this purpose,either of the simple forms, especially that of Messrs. Powelland Lealand, described at page 52, will be… … Fig. 214. supports for the arms, termed rests; these, as described atpage 322, consist of two inclined planes of deal or other wood,placed one on either side of the trough in which the subjectto be dissected is contained, and giving firm support tothe arms and wrists of the operator. If the trough…
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