Section Cutting and Staining: A practical introduction to histological methods for students and practitionersColman, Walter S.
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Section Cutting and Staining: A practical introduction to histological methods for students and practitioners
Colman, Walter S.
Microscopy
The apparatus which is shewn in figures 10 and 11 consists of a
bath deep enough to contain the animal, and a vessel containing the
injection fluid. The bath is kept at a temperature of about 110° by an
ordinary Bunsen burner. A large Wolff’s bottle (20–40 oz.) with three
necks, is fitted with three india-rubber stoppers perforated by glass
tubes. Through the central stopper a glass tube connected by a rubber
tube, with an ordinary Higginson’s syringe, passes almost to the bottom
of the bottle. From one of the other necks a rubber tube passes to an
ordinary mercurial manometer, while from the third a tube passes to
the flask containing the liquefied injection mass, which is immersed
in the water bath. This flask is also firmly stoppered, and should be
about half filled with injection material. The delivery tube from the
large Wolff’s bottle should only just come through the cork. Another
glass tube passes down almost to the bottom of the flask, and is
connected by a rubber tube with the cannula inserted into the artery.
It will be evident from figure 11 that when water is pumped by the
Higginson’s syringe into the Wolff’s bottle the pressure there will
be raised (as indicated by the manometer). This increase of pressure
will equally affect the air inside the bottle containing the injection
fluid, and the fluid will be forced out along the tube and through the
cannula into the artery.
[Illustration: Fig. 10.--Fearnley’s arrangement for injecting blood
vessels. (Reproduced by permission of Messrs. Macmillan, from
Fearnley’s _Practical Histology_).]
[Illustration: Fig. 11.--Scheme shewing distribution of pressure in
Fearnley’s Injection Apparatus (from Fearnley’s _Practical Histology_).]
Before using the apparatus a clamp should be placed on the exit tube
of the vessel containing the injection fluid, and the pressure should
be raised to see that the apparatus is everywhere air-tight. Any leaks
should be sealed before the actual injection is commenced.
If an isolated organ is to be injected, a cannula of glass or brass
should first be inserted into the artery and securely tied in position.
The organs, if cold, must be soaked in water at 120° F. for about half
an hour and then transferred to a water bath.
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