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Thanks for the description of the process, very interesting!

Line up and take your turn viewing your loved one. Then the body goes...somewhere. Bet a lot of these patients never had a viewing.

No, I wish I did but I was working fast - all the chalk had been erased from the board, leaving only smudges.

So delicate...I love this one.

Well in all fairness, the patients were dead already :-)

You take the cubes, and prepare micro thin slices of the sample with a microtome.
It's tricky, you have to get a few squares attached together, like paper dolls, then set them in a bath of water and a certain chemical. The sample/wax squares then float in the water, and you have to dip the slide under and "scoop" them onto the slide. From there the slides are put in an oven, where the wax melts off and fixes the sample to the slide.
Then, there are series of stains, depending on what the tissue sample is. The stains help highlight cells and structures in the tissue, that the pathologist looks at under a microscope,
That's the gist of the process...

More racks - what is hanging on them? Do I see a funnel in there?

Were real names on that chalk board? Did you get a closer photo of it? This is an amazing photo.

Your title is a bit unnerving...

I have a large storage cabinet (shrank) from Germany - the keys are all this type. Heavy skeleton type things.

It does look rather blood-like! I second the thanks - I live vicariously through your photos.

This is too cool. No graffiti either. Looks like they are waiting for customers.

Odd set up for sure. Radiator hanging on the wall? Would not want to see the spider that lives in that web. Awesome colors

Looks like the file system for the slides. Each slide has it's own number, and they are filed accordingly.

Thank you for posting these galleries. I check your site almost every other day in anticipation of new photos. Its fascinating to see what is left behind.