TECHNIQUE OF EYE DISSECTIONS 



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razor blade, the latter being preferable, cut the 

 nerve in two longitudinally. (Fig. 15.) The 

 cutting must be done with one movement, 

 otherwise the nerve will be hacked, and will 

 not make a good specimen. This specimen 



Fig. 16 Showing ciliary processes 

 and crystalline lens. 



will show the way the nerve fibers are ar- 

 ranged. A cross section should be cut from 

 the optic nerve of another eye, and then the 

 two sections should be compared. The cross 

 section will show the sheath of the nerve a 



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