A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . cription, except that the sticks are a little over aninch apart, and half an inch or less in thickness. Or stiff wires may be used, and a weight of lead cast on the upperend, and the lower end inserted into a cork. Such an apparatus an-swers very well and costs nothing, except thelabor. We also must have a knife for cuttingsections, for which a very sharp pocket-knifemay be used if the outlay for a section-cuttercannot be afforded. A sharp pocket-knifewill enable us to cut fairly useful sections,but to do good work we must have a section-cutter (
A companion to the United States pharmacopia; . cription, except that the sticks are a little over aninch apart, and half an inch or less in thickness. Or stiff wires may be used, and a weight of lead cast on the upperend, and the lower end inserted into a cork. Such an apparatus an-swers very well and costs nothing, except thelabor. We also must have a knife for cuttingsections, for which a very sharp pocket-knifemay be used if the outlay for a section-cuttercannot be afforded. A sharp pocket-knifewill enable us to cut fairly useful sections,but to do good work we must have a section-cutter (Fig. 562) into which we can fastenour material so that we can regulate the thick-ness of the slice we cut off, and the cheapestand yet serviceable section-cutter we knowof for this purpose is McAllisters, for $ and more complete section-cutters can be bought for $ andupward. The best knife we have ever used for cutting vegetable sec-tions was a large amputating knife. We cannot make neat slides, though we may make useful ones, with-. Fig. 562.—Section-cutter. UNITED STATES PHARMACOPOEIA. 1049 out a turn-table (Fig. 563). A plain one will answer, but a self-cent-ring one, with hand-rest, will enable one to do very fine work.
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