Cubes

How big were the cubes? It's hard to get a scale from the image.

Wow, crazy stuff!

The horrors of this place overwhelm my imagination

You take the cubes, and prepare micro thin slices of the sample with a microtome.
It's tricky, you have to get a few squares attached together, like paper dolls, then set them in a bath of water and a certain chemical. The sample/wax squares then float in the water, and you have to dip the slide under and "scoop" them onto the slide. From there the slides are put in an oven, where the wax melts off and fixes the sample to the slide.
Then, there are series of stains, depending on what the tissue sample is. The stains help highlight cells and structures in the tissue, that the pathologist looks at under a microscope,
That's the gist of the process...

Then the pathologist gives the "gross" description which is the general appearance of the tissue - measurements, soft, hard, bone, etc. Then they look at it under the microscope and give the "micro" description which is reading the tissue itself for the diagnosis. Some need to be decalcified between the gross and the micro and some have to sit in another fixative before they go under the scope.

GEEEZZZ!!! It is absolutely UNBELIEVABLE to me that this stuff is just lying around!!!! WTH????? How could they possibly do that???

it's just bits of meat set in wax. Okay, so it might be human meat, but it's not gonna hurt anyone, unless they like, melt it and eat it, and even then they'd probably be fine. I doubt the people that the samples are from are affected by whether they're lying around in an abandoned hospital or lying around in a storage room somewhere.

Hmmmm.... I just think these should be at least disposed of in an appropriate way, not just left to literally rot (not to mention a biohazard). No, I'm sure the people themselves don't mind anymore ( :-l ), but it just does not seem RIGHT to have these just LEFT there instead of being cleared out and taken care of. I understand genuine medical samples for unusual conditions, for purposes of study, but handled appropriately. It just seems disrespectful to just abandon things like that, especially with the circumstances that led to the deaths (which were horrible anyway).

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At first, I thought these were large blocks, stacked on sheets of wood, then I read the comments and realized they're actually tiny. The change in perspective made my head hurt!

I agree with Rekrats, I am having difficulty seeing this in the proper perspective.

Hopefully you've never come across any of those things yourself...

So...much...medical waste...it's a wonder the wax didn't melt in the heat! I'm a science geek, and I'd love to examine some of those. Makes you curious to know if all of the random tissue samples lying around contained any sort of disease. Eek!

someone will find this like 1,000,000 years from now and study it....

If this place ever caught fire, it would be like a ginat candle with all those wax samples

How do you manage to not run screaming from some of these things!!!!

Creepy.........hard to believe you find all of this.

I don't know about pathology, but in research you try to keep your samples stored for several years after you studied them.

Thats nasty, if they were to melt in some way there would be little tiny pieces of meat lying on the ground, eww. To me, if people died from some strange kind of disease it would still be in the tissue so if it were to melt how could it not become airbourne. All these unattended to medical hospitals that are still full of nasty remants could be the cause of why there is so much sickness in the world. I mean if people would just sit back and take a big look at the world around them they would see some are their own worst enemy working against them. We the people can change the world for our children. Great, now if I ever in life have to give a tissue, Im going to think of this picture, and wonder will a piece of me just be laying somewhere, when i am gone??? LOL Geeezzz......the world we live in....can be so pretty but some make it so ugggghhh. Head totally hurting now...

I ment if people would just sit back and take a big look at the world around them, some would see that they are there own worst enemy. The board of health should make these places be torn down or pass some kind of closing test before they close there doors, for good, before abandoning them.

missgirl, not everything can become airborne. just like how if something is already airborne it cant contaminate ground water.

OSHA would cut back-flips in this place..what a big hot mess!!!

amazing to me how they leave this behind what if they are containing deseases!!!

It's "Return of The Living Dead" all over again!

Runnnnnnn

Its facsinating to see that proceedures were lax compaired to now. Of course they did not have AIDS back then, but contagious illnesses were around...
Of course they also didn't realize how the aftermath could harm so many....like those who were racing to make the nuclear bomb....Its funny how people do things just to prove they can....

This whole place seems amazing! It's a shame I get a feeling that terrible things happened in that place, sort of takes away from enjoying it.

Medical waste... I remember looking at the gallerie for a tuberculosis hospital on this site. Motts had apparently found and photo'd some culture bottles or the like outside, in a wooded area behind the old hospital- where curious children could possibly find them...
Think of it: "Mommy, I think I have tuberculosis."

Motts, a whole back of human skin? Ahhh! I'd cry if I found that.