Inflated, dried whole lung specimens

Inflated, dried whole lung specimens.

A method is described for preparing fully-inflated whole lung specimens that are suitable for instruction or research purposes. Undamaged lungs are removed from the body and then tracheally cannulated and lavaged with tap water more than 250 times. The treatment also includes rinsing blood from vessels with water. A final filling of the lung with alcohol is optional. The multiply rinsed lung is...

Freeze-dried specimens for gross anatomy teaching.

As more and more emphasis is placed on the use of prosected specimens to support teaching and learning of gross anatomy, consideration must be given to developing new methods to preserve human cadaveric material, and in ways which will resist the wear and tear to which they are necessarily subjected. Taxidermists have developed techniques for freeze-drying whole small animals as a method of lon...

Stereoscopic study of the inflated lung.

Procedures for testing urine specimens dried on filter paper.

METHOD for collection of urine from infants onto squares of filter paper was described as part of a program for early detection of phenylketonuria (1). These urine papers have proved extremely versatile as an aid to testing urine for a number of substances that are excreted as a result of certain metabolic defects, all easily detectable by simple means. Phenylpyruvic acid, phenylalanine, and oh...

morphology of dried blood serum specimens of viral hepatitis