MICROFICHE REFERENCE LIBRARY

,:Contentscontainers. 4.7 Capillary and venous blood. 4.8 Cross infection and syringe jaundice. 4.9SyringesJand ‘needles and tubes’. 4.10 Sending specimens to a central laboratory.Chapter 5. WEIGHING AND MEAkURING5.1 Weight. 5.2 The Ohaus triple beam balance. 5.7 Pipettes and measuring cylinders. 5.8Perc~cntages and parts. 5.9 Why and how we measure colour. 5.10 The Lovibond comparator.5.11 The Grey wedge photometer. 5.12 Filters for light. 5.13 The Haldaue scale. 5.14 Usingthe Grey wedge photometer. 5.16 The EEL calorimeter. 5.17 Getting the EEL ready. 5.18Learning how the EEL works. 5.19 Standards for the EEL. 5.20 The cyanmethaemoglobinmethod. 5.21a Oxyhaemoglobin methods. 5.21b Using a graph with the EEL. 5.22 When theEEL goes wrong. 5.23 Focusing the bulb of an EEL. 5.24 Changing the bulb in an EEL. 5.25Changing the selenium cell in an EEL.Chapter 6. THE MICROSCOPE6.1 The !lrn. 6.2 How a microscope works. 6.3 The mirror and the condenser. 6.4 Centering thecondenser. 6.5 The filter holder. 6.6 The condenser stop. 6.7 The objectives. 6.8 The eyepiece.6.9 The tube, the coarse and fine adjustments. 6.10 The mechanical stage. 6.11 Lights for themicroscope. 6.12 The Olympus model K microscope. 6.13 Knowing your microscope. 6.14Using your microscope. 6.15 Specimens of poor contrast. 6.16 Troubles with microscopes.6.17 Some ‘Do’s’ and ‘Don’ts’ in microscopy. 6.18 Looking after microscopes in warm, wetcountries.Chapter7. BLOOD7.1 Haemoglobin. 7.2 The haematocrit. 7.3 The MCHC. 7.4 An anaemia chart for the ‘underfivesclinic’. 7.5 Anaemia. 7.6 Iron deficiency anaemia. 7.7 Folic acid deficiency anaemia. 7.8Anaemia caused by protein deficiency. 7.9 Haemolytic anaemias. 7.10 When to measure thehaemog:.>bin. 7.11 The thin blood film. 7.12 Leishman’s method. 7.13 Faults in a thin bloodfilm. 7.14 Normal white blood cells (leucocytes). 7.15 Platelets. 7.16 The white cell percentagesin normal blood. 7.17 How blood cells are formed in the marrow. 7.18 Abnormal cells inthe blood. 7.19 Abnormal red cells. 7.20 Abnormal white cells. 7.21 Some further bloodpictures. 7.22 The differential white cell count. 7.23 Reticulocytes. 7.24 What a haemoglobinopathyis. 7.25 Sickle cells. 7.26 Two solubility methods for haemoglobins A and S. 7.27aSickle-cell anaemia and the sickle-cell trait. 7.27b Thalassaemia. 7.28 A simple guide toanaemia. 7.29 Counting white cells. 7.30 What an abnormal total white cell count means. 7.3 1Why a thick film is so useful. 7.32 Malaria. 7.33 A diagram of the human plasmodia. 7.34 Themeaning of a positive thick film in malaria. 7.35 Relapsing fever. 7.36 Trypanosomiasis. 7.37Filariasis. 7.38 A concentration method. 7.39 The ESR. 7.40 The form01 gel method. 7.4 1 Theserum urea. 7.42 The blood sugar. 7.43 Measuring the plasma acetone with Acetest tablets.Chapter8. URINE8.1 A clean specimen of urine. 8.2 Why we test the urine. 8.3 Testing the urine for sugar andprotein. 8.4 The meaning of proteinuria. 8.5 Routine urine testing. 8.6 Diabetes and the bloodsugar. 8.7 Acetone. 8.8 Jaundice and some tests for bile pigments. 8.9 Testing for INH and