Toxic

we have formalin for Bx that we take!!! it comes in big plastic containers. intresting to see it in vials.

This is such a beautiful, yet simple shot. The color of the label is so interesting especially compared to the minimalist colors and shapes of the other objects. Did you manipulate the objects in the scene or were they as is? Because the set up is pretty much perfect.

FROM DAWN OF THE DEAD COMES........

hey motts, were there lights on or is it just flash from your camera?

hehe - they haven't changed much. nowadays they're plastic, and have printed labels with barcodes, but yeah - still the same thing.

this would be for small tissue samples, like for example if someone died of a suspected heart attack, they'd send sections of the blood vessels of the heart to the pathologist to be examined macro and microscopically to confirm cause of death.

These bottles are for pieces about the size of the tip of your finger, about 1cm cubed. they go right up to massive tubs for entire organs - those are creepy.

and, as a vaguely-related side-note: all histological and pathological samples taken by hopsitals in the UK must be kept for five years. the microscope slides made from those samples must be kept for 20 years. The storage rooms are huge - and phenomenally morbid - i wonder what they do with all the samples when the hospital shuts down? presumably move them to another hopsital - they legally cannot throw them away.

Oh yeah, once the five or twenty years are up they're all incinerated - I mean that I wonder what happens to the samples that still have to be stored for years, when their storage place is abandoned?

We keep all of our wet tissue for three years unless the case in pending litigation; and our micro slides permanently .

Can anybody see a ladys face on the right?
(Glass Jar)!!!!

Yes Jason I can see the face

The porcelin is so great, blew me away. Won't find that no mo. This place was a business. By the by, NSH no longer exists. It has been leveled and all the spirits gone to wherever spirits go. Motts, what more can I say.

Can anybody else see the young ladys face.?can you see it Motts?

Anybody looking at the moment?

um... this is creepy... definitely.

Its neat how the vial is sitting nicley into the drainage slot