There were spurts of arterial blood on the floor and on the nearby
laboratory furniture, and beside the workbench another smaller and
isolated pool of blood.
On a table in a corner by the window stood a microscope which
Cushing evidently used, and near it a box of fresh sterilised
slides. Kennedy, who had been casting his eye carefully about
taking in the whole laboratory, seemed delighted to find the
slides. He opened the box and gingerly took out some of the little
oblong pieces of glass, on each of which he dropped a couple of
minute drops of blood from the arterial spurts and the venous
pools on the floor.
Near the workbench were circular marks, much as if some jars had
been set down there. We were watching him, almost in awe at the
matter of fact manner in which, he was proceeding in what to us
was nothing but a hopeless enigma, when I saw him stoop and pick
up a few little broken pieces of glass. There seemed to be blood
spots on the glass, as on other things, but particularly
interesting to him.
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