718 Comments for Irrenanstalt Weiler

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This whole photo is just amazing...the wall texture, the shelf, the jars...were stoppers still tight fitting? Figure they must fit pretty well since there is still liquid in the jars.
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Fantastic shot. Whatever is in there, if it were mine originally, I think I would want to keep it.
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Wicked looking thing!
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After the slides have been made, and you have gotten the slices needed for those slides, there is most often a remaining block of wax and tissue. These are stored in case you need more slides in the future. In America, there is a time period of which you are required to store them- I'm not sure how long.
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The sheer number of samples is unreal.
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Thanks for the description of the process, very interesting!
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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.
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No, I wish I did but I was working fast - all the chalk had been erased from the board, leaving only smudges.
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So delicate...I love this one.
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Well in all fairness, the patients were dead already :-)
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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...
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More racks - what is hanging on them? Do I see a funnel in there?
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Were real names on that chalk board? Did you get a closer photo of it? This is an amazing photo.
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Your title is a bit unnerving...
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I have a large storage cabinet (shrank) from Germany - the keys are all this type. Heavy skeleton type things.