[Histonet] Re: Flames at embedding centers

[Sanders, Jeanine (CDC/OID/NCEZID)]

<sigh> the good old days....................................

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From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of James Watson
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 1:58 PM
To: 'Bob Richmond'; Histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Re: Flames at embedding centers

How about the person in the 1970's coverslipping with an open dish of xylene at AFIP and someone at the other end of the stain line decolorizing Brown and Brenn stains with acetone/ether in the sink; then the acetone/ether fumes migrating across the stain line to the cigarette and having the whole counter and wall catch fire.

James Watson HT  ASCP
GNF  Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation Scientific Technical Leader II, Histology Tel    858-332-4647 Fax   858-812-1915 jwatson <@t> gnf.org

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From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Richmond
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 10:36 AM
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Subject: [Histonet] Re: Flames at embedding centers

Remembering histotechnologists at Johns Hopkins in the 1960s smoking cigarettes while hand-staining slides in rows of large Stender dishes, including a dish with 20% picric acid in acetone, used to remove formalin pigment (since buffering formalin wasn't permitted way back then).

Bob Richmond
Samurai Pathologist
Maryville TN
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