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CHAPTER XXXir. 



Formula 7a. — Fix for 24 hours ia Merck's fibro-lysln, 

 wash for 6, put for 24 into 50 c.c. of alcohol with five drops 

 of ammonia. The rest as usual. 



Instead of fibrolysinj lysidin may be taken. 



Application of the Foregoing Methods to Different Ohjects of 



Study. 



(1) For the study of the evolution of neuroblasts and nerve 

 fibres in rery early embryos, it is absolutely necessary to avoid 

 fixing with formol, or alcohol with an accelerator, or am- 

 nioniacal liquids. The best formulas are 2a and 5a. Applic- 

 able to all vertebrates, but preferably to embryos of birds 

 and fishes. ^ 



(2) For late embryos and fceti of mammals. — Besides the 

 above, 3a, 6a and alcohol with an accelerator. Best subjects, 

 embryos of chick from the fifth day, and of rabbit from the 

 tenth to the twelfth. Or newborn birds, with ammonia 

 alcohol or 5a. 



(3) For sympathetic ganglia. — Formula 3a, or jDure alcohols 

 or 4a and 5a. Best with man. Dog, cat, and rabbit give 

 mostly weak i-eactions. The visceral ganglia are the most 

 difficult. 



(4) Bensory ganglia. — Formula 2a, or 3a. Easy. 



(5) Cerebellum. — The most favourable of all nerve centres. 

 For Purkinje cells^ la or 3a. For the baskets, climbing 

 fibres, and medium and small dendrites, 2a, or its variants. 

 For terminal rosettes and collaterals of mossy fibres, and for 

 the plexuses of the granular laj'er, 4a, or sometimes 5a or 6a. 

 For the stellate cells of the molecular layer, 2a and 3a, on 

 the dog. 



(6) Cerebrum. — In general, the same formulas as for the 

 cerebellum, especially la, for pyramids of young dogs and 

 cats (of eight to twenty days). In formula 3a, the propor- 

 tion of ammonia should be diminished. For fine plexuses, 

 4a, 5a, and 6a. 



(7) Spinal cord and bulb. — All the formulae are applicable. 

 For neurofibrils of motor cells the best subject is the dog 

 of four to fifteen days, with formula 3a, Avith a large dose of 

 ammonia (ten drops). Also the alcoholic fixatives witli an 

 accelerator. For medullated fibres, large and small, 2a or 



