Teased nerve fixed in osmic acid, magnified twenty times

Teased nerve fixed in osmic acid, magnified twenty times

Magnified teased human nerve

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Histology

slides (microscopy)

nerves

Osmium Tetroxide

human remains

Microscope slide of a human nerve, teased out and fixed in osmic acid. Nerve image is magnified twenty times

Microscope slide of a nerve fixed in osmic acid

Unknown

1830-1888, between

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model

1 microscope slide

slides (microscopy)

physical object

CHSI 1092A

lide belonged to Oliver Wendell Holmes and was part of his teaching slide collection, which he donated to the Harvard medical School on March 15, 1888.