LIQUID FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WET ANATOMICAL PREPARATIONS, ETC. IT has long been the desire of the medical profession to find a method for preserving objects of pathological anatomy and for the purposes of dissection. Heretofore all known methods have proved abortive. I am convinced that I have discovered a mode which will preserve objects unaltered and perfectly pliable. This is the result of years of trial and labor, and it has succeeded to my entire satisfaction. About six years ago, to test the compound, I placed a fœtus in water and let it remain over night. I then transferred it to a vessel containing a weak solution of creasote, there to remain over night; then to a jar containing my preserving fluid. I think about three years ago Dr. Lewitt, of Ann Arbor, being in Baltimore, stated to me that he found great difficulty in keeping material for the dissecting-room. I called his attention to this foetus, and gave him a statement of the component parts of the liquid in which it was preserved. A year after, he informed me that he had tried my formula, and had put down a large number of bodies for dissection, and they had kept through the hottest summer months. At the commencement of the session, he thought it best to place the material on the tables, which he did, and had cause to regret it, as it was found to be perfectly good. He expressed the opinion that the composition would keep material as long as desired, and considers it a valuable acquisition to the dissecting-room. I have immersed objects in my preservative fluid that have been saturated with alcohol, and find there remains a cloudy or milky appearance. The mode of preparation is the following: First place the object in a vessel containing pure water, let it remain a few hours or over night; then transfer it to another containing a solution of creasote |