Journal of Applied Microscopy. 



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Dishes for Infiltrating Tissues in Paraffin. 



THE LILLIE WATER BATH. 



If one employs the Lillie oven for infiltrating tissues in paraffin, it is 

 necessary to have small dishes to hold the paraffin. The little tin pattie dishes 

 answer fairly well, but there is liability of spilling the paraffin, and also of 

 getting the fingers uncomfortably hot. To overcome the difficulties, the dish 

 shown half size in the accompanying figures was designed several months 

 ago. It has answered the needs so admirably that it is published for the sake 

 of other laboratories which may need such a dish to use with their ovens. It is 

 made of tinned and burnished copper. The handle is of a strip of copper and 



