_Eosin and Iodine Green._--Eosin is used as the ground colour. Stain the tissue in an alcoholic solution of eosin, which will colour it very rapidly, usually in a few seconds. Wash the section thoroughly in water acidulated with acetic or hydrochloric acid, a one per cent. solution, and stain with iodine green. This will double stain bone and cerebellum; but if logwood is substituted for the latter, the cerebrum and general substance become stained by the eosin, while the logwood colours the nerve-cells a lilac. _Gold Chloride and Aniline Dyes._--The tissue must be impregnated with chloride of gold, and then stained with either aniline blue, iodine green, or rosin. The tail of a young rat, containing as it does so many different structures, is an excellent material for experimenting upon. Remove the skin from the tail, and place pieces half an inch long into the juice of a fresh lemon for five minutes, wash it to get rid of the acid. The fine tendons swell up under the action of the lemon acid, and permit of the more ready action of the chloride of gold solution. Place the piece for an hour or more in a one per cent. solution of gold, remove it and wash it thoroughly, and then place it in a twenty-five per cent. solution of formic acid for twenty-four hours. This reduces the gold. During the process of reduction the preparation must be kept in the dark. The osseous portion has then to be decalcified in the ordinary way, with a mixture of chromic and nitric acid. After decalcification preserve the whole in alcohol. Transverse sections of the decalcified tail are made, and may be stained with a red dye, as rosin, and afterwards with a watery solution of iodine green. Mount in dammar. Injecting Small Animal Bodies. [Illustration: Fig. 241.--Injecting Syringe.] [Illustration: Fig. 242.--Water Bath and Melting Vessels.] The injection of animal bodies practised by the older anatomists, to render the vascular system more apparent, has not been superseded by the more modern methods of staining. The method of injecting even small bodies requires some skill, and a few pieces of apparatus made expressly for the purpose. First, a special form of brass syringe of such a size that it may be grasped with the right hand, the thumb at the same time covering the button at the top of the piston-rod when drawn out to the full. In Fig. 241 the piston rod is seen withdrawn, _a_ is the body, with a screw at the top for firmly screwing down the cover, _b_, after the piston, _c_, is replaced; _e_ is a stop-cock, to the end of which either of the smaller cannulæ, _g_, is affixed. The transverse wires are for securing them tightly with thread to the vessels into which they are to be inserted. In addition to the syringe, two or three tinned vessels are required to contain size, injecting fluid, and hot water.