How many of us smoked and drank coffee at our microtomes? Or while doing autopsies? Those were the days and a lot of us are still around. Lol
Sent from the iPhone of Kim Tournear πΊπΈ π On Sep 20, 2013, at 8:44 AM, Paula Sicurello <[email protected]> wrote: > I worked for the Navy Hospital in San Diego, way back in the day, and we > did an extraction with fuming HCl (straight, 100% HCl for folks who didn't > know what fuming meant). Several people would get nosebleeds every time > they performed the extraction. I finally got one of those fans that looks > like an airplane propellor in a cage and pried open the painted shut > windows. I dared anyone to stop me, no one did! 1 was quite gutsy for a > 22 year old. > The Petty Officers had me make 10N NaOH and forgot to tell me how hot it > got. I almost dropped it when I picked it up. > > Plus I had to swim to work, both ways in a rip tide-battleing sharks and > jelly fish, while sloshing around in an earthquake! It is San Diego after > all. > > Happy Friday! > > Paula > -- > Paula Sicurello, HTL (ASCP) > Supervisor, Clinical Electron Microscopy Laboratory > Duke University Health System > Rm.#251M, Duke South, Green Zone > Durham, North Carolina 27710 > P: 919.684.2091 > HIPAA Privacy Notification: This message and any accompanying documents are > covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, > and contain information intended for the specific individual (s) only. This > information is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient or an > agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are > hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any > review, dissemination, copying or the taking of any action based on the > contents of this information is strictly prohibited . If you have received > this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and > delete the original message. > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:25 AM, jeff lowen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> yet here we are......how much of what they tell us is hyperbole? >> >>> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:50:24 +0000 >>> From: [email protected] >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Re: bunsen burner at the embedding center >>> CC: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> I actually knew the person you are speaking of and it was his favorite >> trick. We should be careful these younger people are using gloves for >> everything now to protect themselves. W hen I started in Histology even >> the pathologists cleaned the paraffin off their hands with xylene and >> encouraged everyone to do the same . We used so many things that are now >> not even allowed to be open on this planet and did know how dangerous or >> serious the possible issues could be over time. >>> >>> >>> Pam Marcum >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Bob Richmond" <[email protected]> >>> To: "[email protected]" < >> [email protected]> >>> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 9:35:55 AM >>> Subject: [Histonet] Re: bunsen burner at the embedding center >>> >>> I distinctly remember when I was a resident at Johns Hopkins in the late >>> 1960s that the histotechs would smoke while staining and coverslipping >>> without much ventilation. When I suggested to the chief technologist (who >>> later died of smoking related disease at 65, but at least he hadn't set >>> himself afire) that this wasn't such a good idea, he responded by >> stubbing >>> out a lighted cigarette in a Stender dish full of xylene (apparently you >>> can do this trick with gasoline also, but don't try it at home please). >>> >>> Buffering formalin was prohibited back then, and they removed the >> formalin >>> pigment by passing the sections through a concentrated solution (20 or >> 30%) >>> of picric acid in acetone. I'm glad he didn't try the cigarette trick in >>> THAT Stender dish. >>> >>> Fast-forward nearly half a century, and in the three labs I'm working in >>> I'm still grossing formalin-fixed tissue with minimal ventilation, but at >>> least people aren't allowed to smoke in the lab any more. >>> >>> Bob Richmond >>> Samurai Pathologist >>> Maryville TN >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Histonet mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Histonet mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Histonet mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
