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Essential Insights into Microtomes, Histology, and Historical Medical Practices

This overview explores key topics in histology and medical history, including the purpose of microtomes in slicing tissues for examination, the significance of Haematoxylin and routine dyes in histopathology, and the limitation of virtual microscopy in diagnostics. Additionally, it discusses the famous Blossom the cow, Darwin's evolutionary species studies, the enterotome's role in surgery, the Philadelphia chromosome's medical association, and historical practices such as the use of the donkey engine by Lister. Gain a deeper understanding of these critical medical concepts and their history.

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Essential Insights into Microtomes, Histology, and Historical Medical Practices

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  1. What is a microtome used for?

  2. Why is Blossom the cow famous?

  3. Why isn’t virtual microscopy (digital image of a slide viewed on a monitor instead of down a microscope) used for routine diagnosis?

  4. Haematoxylin is a dye derived from the bark of the logwood tree. What is the other stain used in routine histology?

  5. What does PCR stand for?

  6. What is the Coulter principle?

  7. Name two species studied by Darwin in his work on evolution

  8. What is an enterotome?

  9. Why did 90% of ventilated patients die during a polio epidemic in the 1950s despite adequate oxygenation?

  10. With which condition is the Philadelphia chromosome associated?

  11. When was urinalysis introduced?

  12. What is paraffin wax used for in the histopathology lab?

  13. Why did Lister stop using the donkey engine during operations?

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