Two questions

[enismirdal]

1. Can anyone claim responsibility for the large tray of Primulas that have been left outside out back gate? *loves Primulas, but is utterly confused*

2. Do any of you own a dissecting kit? If so, what brand is it, where did you buy it, and how much did it cost? I want/need one. It will be used largely to chop up flowers, and certainly not unfortunate rabbits/dogs/people - I'd like one that's good quality, but it certainly doesn't need to be medical standard or anything. Just durable. And the fine forceps need to meet at the tip perfectly, naturally!

Comments

[amabat.livejournal.com]

http://www.alanaecology.com/acatalog/Dissecting_Kit.html

Haven't bought one of these.
Alana are generally useful and good quality professional stuff though.

I've always wanted one, but that's because it's the only way I know of removing splinters (ours is my mums university one though. I suspect it was just generally handy when we were little, and I think she always steralised it first).

Small World

[tweekers.livejournal.com]

It is a small internet Ama, I was bored and looking at a friend's friends page and you were the first reply to the first post...this wasn't a KoL friend either.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

That looks like a nice one, thanks! Will definitely consider that one as it's exactly what I had in mind and the sort of price I expected to pay. :)

[caduceus.livejournal.com]

re: question #2

I still have mine from my 1st and 2nd year anatomy class! :D Stainless steel scalpels, probe, forceps/tweezers... Got them as a set in a specialised shop for medical students, though you can buy each item separately as well.
I figure you might find something like that in London (UCL has medical courses, doesn't it?) - or I could go and tell you prices/get you what you need (or send you what I have, if the idea of these things having helped me take apart alcohol-saturated corpses doesn't disgust you). ;)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I hadn't thought of there being a specialist real shop. QMUL has medical students too. Well, we're strongly affiliated with Barts and the London anyway, so the med students are more or less ours. I should look into that! :) Thanks!

[rjw76]

I got a cheap one on ebay for the purposes of playing surgeons in LARP. THere are probably better ones there too :)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

1. No

2. No

/silly :-)

[lauand.livejournal.com]

I know I'm not of much help, but I got mine piece by piece in a shop for medical instruments. They weren't expensive, but that was 10 years ago and in Spain. No idea how it works in the UK.

[girlofthemirror.livejournal.com]

I got mine from the vet school - it was £10. The equiment is absolutely fine. You can buy replacements of anything you use/break so I'm sore they have it all somewhere. I don't see why you couldn't buy some too.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

£10 is a pretty good price! If I'm in Cambridge sometime soon I should explore that idea.

Nice to see you - I hope you're doing great. :)