A Preservative

Abstract

I HAVE been very much troubled in conducting classes in mammalian anatomy by the want of a preservative medium which would retain the natural colour and texture of tissues, would impart to them no offensive smell, would be inexpensive, and easily handled. Various experiments with freezing, alcoholic, glycerine, and other media have all proven failures, and this fall I turned to experimentation upon the simplest and cheapest of all chemical reagents—water and table-salt. My entire success with these was so satisfactory that I shall, at the risk of telling an old story, state the experiments here.