This happened to me, too, back in the early 80s.  At the time I was new to
the game, and assumed that my PhD supervisor would inform me of any health
risks of which I should be aware.  I thought my eyes were just getting
tired.   Material Safety Data Sheets?  Ha!  Nonexistent in that lab.

I have suspicions about the glutaraldehyde effects on my nostrils, too (yes,
I trimmed my EM tissue not under a hood because the light wasn't adequate
under there).  Let's just say that I can't smell fresh coffee grounds
anymore.

Jan Shivers

----- Original Message -----
From: "Monson, Frederick C." 
To: "'List-HistoPath'" ; "'List-Microscopy'"

Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:32 AM
Subject: FW: Cornea disease Not HO HO


>
>
> > ----------
> > From: Monson, Frederick C.
> > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:31 AM
> > To: 'WWmn916@aol.com'
> > Subject: RE: Cornea disease Not HO HO
> >
> > Not disease, BUT!!!!
> >
> > I remember an early electron microscopist describing how, as a graduate
> > student, he would sit at his dissecting scope watching the course of
> > osmium tetroxide fixation.  He would stop when his foggy cornea would no
> > longer permit him to see anything.  He would resume when his cornea
> > cleared a couple days later.  He did not publish the data he collected
on
> > corneal renewal, because he didn't think of it as an experiment in
> > progress, but only as an experiment delayed.
> >
> > Oh well, I've done my damage for the day,
> >
> > Fred Monson
> >
> > Frederick C. Monson, PhD
> > The best research
> > Center for Advanced Scientific Imaging
> > occurs before work
> > West Chester University
> > at the bench.
> > West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA, 19383
> > 610-738-0437
> > fmonson@wcupa.edu
> >
> >
> > ----------
> > From: WWmn916@aol.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:43 PM
> > To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> > Subject: Cornea disease
> >
> > Greetings to all,
> >       I'm curious if anyone would know if developing cornea disease is
> > somewhat common in the lab world?  With all the chemicals and fumes we
> > work with, I wouldn't be surprised.
> >
> > Deb King, HT
> > Sacramento, CA
> >
> >
>
>