TECHNIQUE OF EYE DISSECTIONS 



large scissors; using a knife or scalpel will 

 tend to disturb the positions of those tissues 

 or so tear them that they will not be of much 



Fig. 9 Showing method of cutting eye into anterior and pos- 

 terior sections with safety -razor blade. 



use for purposes of study. An ordinary safety- 

 razor blade makes an excellent instrument for 

 separating the eye into two halves, because it 

 cuts through the tissues without tearing them 

 in any way. (Fig. 9.) The rather dark col- 



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