Anatomical manipulation, or, The methods of pursuing practical investigations in comparative anatomy and physiology : also an introduction to the use of the microscope, etc., and appendix / by Alfred Tulk and Arthur Henfrey.

Tulk, Alfred, -1891.

Date:: 1844

Credit: Anatomical manipulation, or, The methods of pursuing practical investigations in comparative anatomy and physiology : also an introduction to the use of the microscope, etc., and appendix / by Alfred Tulk and Arthur Henfrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$b THE STUDY. the platforms, at a yard distance from the wall, and with a space of 2\ yards between their centres. They should be somewhat less than those ordinarily used in dissecting rooms ; about 1 yard long by |- wide, as bodies only of middling size, as those of a sheep or goat, or fragments of large animals, are dissected upon them. Above each platform and table a rope with pul- lies should be attached to the ceiling. 5. The same general principles of construction will apply to ordinary dissecting rooms, as to the large halls. The best kind of dissecting table is made in the form of a slightly concave platform covered with lead or zinc, turning upon its centre, which should rest upon a round table, with its four legs fastened to the floor. The apartment is to be heated, like the preceding, by means of stoves, in number proportionate to its extent. 6. The study of the anatomist, is the place in which the latter engages in the dissection of animals of mode- rately small size, and those below it; it serves also for other kinds of work, such as microscopic observations, drawing, and the preparation of books for the press. This apartment should differ therefore considerably from the dissecting rooms spoken of above. It ought to have a south aspect, that the objects under dissection may be directly illuminated by the sun; the window should be without embrasure, so that the table may be placed quite against the glass. Each side of the window should be furnished within with a white and thick calico blind, to prevent the passage of a glaring light, where objectionable. These blinds will cover with their shadow the whole dissecting table, with the exception$