RE: coverslipping by hand

From:Mike Konopka

I agree with Chuck on this one. There seems to some hysteria regarding xylene and it’s products, back in the dark ages, staining lines were manual, fingers were used to transfer slides down the line, after 47years of doing this he would get ‘cracked’ finger tips, but after coming back from annual leave his skin would be like baby’s again. He died in his 80’s of a heart attack.

Mike

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles.Embrey [mailto:Charles.Embrey@carle.com]
Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2003 1:24 AM
To: 'Linke_Noelle'; MARY T HODGES; HistoNet Server
Subject: RE: coverslipping by hand

 

You really should try not to become so emotionally involved.  I have coverslipped bare handed for 23 years and still have all my fingers, don't see spots before my eyes, liver and kidneys work fine and I'm still relatively sane.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: Linke_Noelle [mailto:Linke_Noelle@Allergan.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 9:04 AM
To: MARY T HODGES; HistoNet Server
Subject: RE: coverslipping by hand

It breaks my heart to read that there are techs out there NOT using gloves to coverslip!!  I have NEVER touched mountant or xylene with my bare hands and neither should anyone out there!  Buy nitrile gloves that fit you and arent too big and you should have NO problems!

-----Original Message-----
From: MARY T HODGES [mailto:hodges420@msn.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 12:21 PM
To: HistoNet Server
Subject:

Hi all,

Just one quick question.. Do any of you use gloves to cover slip by hand?

Thanks for you input

Tere Hodges


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