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CONTENTS 

 SECTION I— GENERAL METHODS 



FIXATION 



(a) FIXATIVES 



Acetic Acid — Acetone — Alcohol Absolute — Allen's 

 Fixative — Bouin's Fluid — Bouin-Duboscq (Duboscq- 

 Brasil or Alcoholic Bouin) — Carnoy's Fluid — Carnoy- 

 LeBrun — Champy's Fluid — Flemming's Fluids — 

 Formalin (neutral) — Formalin (buffered) — Formol- 

 Alcohol — Helly's Fluid — Hermann's Fluid — Klein- 

 enberg's Fluid — Lewitsky's Fluid — Marchi's Fluid — 

 Navashin's Fluid — Orth's Fluid — Petrunkevitch's 

 Cupric p-Nitrophenol — Regaud's Fluid — Schau- 

 dinn's Fluid — Susa (Heidenhain) — Zenker's Fluid, 

 etc. 



(b) DEHYDRATION, CLEARING, EMBEDDING, 



SECTIONING, ETC 



Celloidin Method 



Celloidin - Paraffin Wax (double embedding) 



Celloidin - Pyridin 



Frozen Sections 



Gelatine Embedding 



Low Viscosity Nitrocellulose (L.V.N.) Method 



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Mercuric Chloride Precipitates in Sections : Removal of 28 



Paraffin Wax Embedding and Sectioning 



Paraffin Wax - Pyridin Method 



Water Wax . . . . . . 



Miscellaneous Dehydrating and Clearing Reagents 

 Solvents, etc. 



Butyl Alcoholy Tertiary — for dehydrating and clearing 

 Cajeput Oil — for clearing in wet climates 



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