No injuries after 2 years with microm fully automated. Have used automated
cryostats for ten years ....none there either.  Had many cuts on old
microtomes... carpal tunnel much better with automatic...wonderful better
sections also.

-----Original Message-----
From: J. A. Kiernan [mailto:jkiernan@julian.uwo.ca]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 12:58 AM
To: Kevin Burt
Cc: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: Re: Motorized Microtomes


On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Kevin Burt wrote:

> Would like to know if anyone has experienced injuries using a motorized 
> microtome.

Wasn't there an Ancient Chinese Torture known as the Death of a
Thousand Cuts?  I imagined it working slowly upwards from the
soles of the feet, in increments of 1.5-2.0 mm. It would have
needed a robust microtome and also a motor, because at one
section per minute the executioner's bladder would never have
held out for the whole ceremony!

 John A. Kiernan,
 Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology,
 The University of Western Ontario,
 LONDON,  Canada  N6A 5C1
   E-mail: kiernan@uwo.ca