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1 and pathology reports. Page 1772 2 Glass slides are about, oh, about two and 3 three-quarters inches long, three-quarters inches wide 4 and 16th of an inch thick and they would have a piece 5 of tissue on it from a person's body, say the pleura 6 in Mr. Grewe's case, which has been stained by dye so 7 I could see it through a microscope. 8 What I would do is look at that tissue 9 through a microscope and determine if there was a 10 cancer or some other condition present. If there was 11 a cancer present, I would try to tell what type of 12 cancer it was. 13 With the paraffin blocks, it is about like 14 this, say three-quarters by half an inch by about a 15 quarter of an inch, and that paraffin block contains 16 the tissue that was taken from the body that has been 17 processed in a certain way and infiltrated with wax so 18 we could put it into this machine called a microtome 19 so we could make very thin slices of it to put on 20 these slides that we stain with dyes. 21 In Mr. Grewe's case I examined the medical