[Histonet] Re: Flames at embedding centers

[Gray, Ed]

Ah, such an appropriate time of year for this thread.  Once a year we gave our trash autoclave a good cleaning and pressure cooked turkeys for our Thanksgiving party.

Ed Gray | Clinical Application Coordinator | Phone: 304-293-2945 | Fax: 304-293-1627 | WVU Healthcare l egray <@t> wvuhealthcare.com


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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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