Trisha,

I remember leaded gas AND "leaded tinsel" at Christmas...

Best tinsel there ever was...
Hung straight and really looked great...
Mom's gone cause of what she ate,
but the Dr. said twas what she drank caused her gait.

I look every year for tinsel so wonderful,
but cannot find it at this date...
Wanting a tree to look as beautiful...
as Mom, even in her gait.

The paint on the walls of the project house we lived in,
was tainted with lead as well....
But somehow Mom provided food,
so I would not knaw the wood thin.

Perhaps those earlier memories,
Taught me some common sense.....
To avoid the good smells of chemistries.
and enjoy my retirement at no expense!

Oh, my long gone poetry teachers...
Would not be in the bleachers...
Cheering me on....
Until I'm gone!

Don Hammer, Retired Guy
----- Original Message -----
From: P. Emry <emry@u.washington.edu>
To: Gayle Callis <uvsgc@msu.oscs.montana.edu>
Cc: <histonet@pathology.swmed.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: Samurai-sents


> Any of you oldsters remember leaded gas....yaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
>
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Gayle Callis wrote:
>
> > At the risk of beating an old subject to death
> >
> > Bob Richmond's  message made excellent points, and kids aren't the only
one
> > "sniffing the glues".  We do it everyday in our households, rotten
orange
> > grove smelling sprays, fingernail polish (for us glamour types), glues
and
> > methacrylates to put those falsie fingernails on, paints, and most
> > frightening of all is paint stores, selling xylol!  If there has been
one
> > thing learned out of all the safety precautions in histo lab, it is take
> > your lessons HOME! You actually may be safer in your labs with hoods,
etc
> > than you are staining the deck or painting the loo, visiting the
> > manicurist.
> >
> > All laboratory personnel MUST read Material Safety Data Sheets on
solvents,
> > even the single aliphatic hydrocarbons, Propar and Clearite 3.  Odor
free
> > does not mean safe, there are precautions, and they should be followed.
> >
> > Case in point - HOW many of you make your employee READ the MSDS???
> > They have the right to know, and should be handed those MSDS upon hiring
> > for reading and be made to understand and handle the stuff properly. It
is
> > YOUR responsibility to DO THIS or if you are alone, be informed and not
> > infirm!
> >
> > Have a good weekend, hmmmmm, thinking about a manicure, but just
thinking!
> >
> >
> >
> > >'Tain't funny! Aromatic solvents, particularly toluene, are widely used
by
> > >kids who inhale solvent fumes to get high ("huffing").
> > >
> > >Like skateboarding, this hazardous behavior rarely persists beyond the
age
> > of
> > >14. But in my travels I've encountered one older histologist, pretty
crazy I
> > >thought, who took the waste xylene home, and I think she huffed it
(she's
> > >dead now).
> > >
> > >Aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene, toluene, xylene) are strongly suspected
of
> > >causing myelocytic leukemia (information about the incidence of these
> > >diseases in histologists is badly needed). If you can smell them in a
> > >histology lab, the ventilation is inadequate.
> > >
> > >Several people on this list have recently noted sensitization to the
> > limonene
> > >class of xylene substitutes (HistoClear, AmeriClear, Hemodeedee and
what
> > have
> > >you). I didn't know how common the problem is, but I'm not surprised.
> > >
> > >I suppose that the odorless aliphatic solvents (ProPar, Clear-Rite 3,
and
> > >several others) get around all of these problems.
> > >
> > >Aliphatics are expensive, but they can be about 85% recovered by
> > >distillation, if you can keep pathologists and managers from having
> > >hissy-fits about your running a still in the lab (frequent problem in
small
> > >labs). It's important to know that every brand has a different
distillation
> > >routine, and you must not mix them in the still. Management has to
> > understand
> > >in advance that they cannot switch brands on you just because the
salesman
> > >for Cheapo-Kleer suddenly offers a ten cent a gallon price break.
> > >
> > >Bob Richmond
> > >Samurai Pathologist
> > >Knoxville TN
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Gayle Callis
> > Veterinary Molecular Biology
> > Montana State University
> > Bozeman MT 59717-3610
> > 406 994-4705
> > 406 994-4303
> >
> >
>
> Trisha
>
>
>