These little gems were shared by Human Anatomy Education on Facebook. The first is a great little video that would accompany a head dissection or any discussion of the ear. I’m on the hunt for one of those video otoscopes now….
The second one is a good description of the ear and it’s parts, but what we really want to know is where did she get that t-shirt? I’ve hunted on the internet but so far haven’t had any luck. If you find it will you share it with me?
Dec 8, 2011
On the first day of Christmas
Miss Vivi sent to me
A packet of porcine kidneys.
On the second day of Christmas
Miss Vivi sent to me
Two ovine brains,
and a packet of porcine kidneys.
On the third day of Christmas
Miss Vivi sent to me
Three pigs heads,
Two ovine brains,
and a packet of porcine kidneys.
On the fourth day of Christmas
Miss Vivi sent to me
Four small intestines,
Three pigs heads,
Two ovine brains,
and a packet of porcine kidneys.
On the fifth day of Christmas
Miss Vivi sent to me
Five ovaries,
Four small intestines,
Three pigs heads,
Two ovine brains,
and a packet of porcine kidneys.
On the sixth day of Christmas
Miss Vivi sent to me
Six lungs inflating,
Five ovaries,
Four small intestines,
Three pigs heads,
Two ovine brains,
and a packet of porcine kidneys.
On the seventh day of Christmas
Miss Vivi sent to me
Seven tongues a-wagging,
Six lungs inflating,
Five ovaries,
Four small intestines,
Three pigs heads,
Two ovine brains,
and a packet of porcine kidneys.
On the eighth day of Christmas
Miss Vivi sent to me
Eight entire piglets,
Seven tongues a-wagging,
Six lungs inflating,
Five ovaries,
Four small intestines,
Three pigs heads,
Two ovine brains,
and a packet of porcine kidneys.
On the ninth day of Christmas
Miss Vivi sent to me
Nine eyes a-winking,
Eight entire piglets,
Seven tongues a-wagging,
Six lungs inflating,
Five ovaries,
Four small intestines,
Three pigs heads,
Two ovine brains,
and a packet of porcine kidneys.
On the tenth day of Christmas
Miss Vivi sent to me
Ten porcine testes,
Nine eyes a-winking,
Eight entire piglets,
Seven tongues a-wagging,
Six lungs inflating,
Five ovaries,
Four small intestines,
Three pigs heads,
Two ovine brains,
and a packet of porcine kidneys.
On the eleventh day of Christmas
Miss Vivi sent to me
Eleven hearts a-pumping,
Ten porcine testes,
Nine eyes a-winking,
Eight entire piglets,
Seven tongues a-wagging,
Six lungs inflating,
Five ovaries,
Four small intestines,
Three pigs heads,
Two ovine brains,
and a packet of porcine kidneys.
On the twelfth day of Christmas,
Miss Vivi sent to me
Twelve joints a-bending,
Eleven hearts a-pumping,
Ten porcine testes,
Nine eyes a-winking,
Eight entire piglets,
Seven tongues a-wagging,
Six lungs inflating,
Five ovaries,
Four small intestines,
Three pigs heads,
Two ovine brains,
and a packet of porcine kidneys!
Wishing you all the best for a very happy (and uneventful!) holiday. We’ll see you in 2012.
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These images are all over the web, so it’s just about impossible to credit the originators. Worth sharing anyway, I think. Click the image to see the full size version.
Image: Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
So, where do eyes come from? Miss Vivi has them in stock all the time, so for you, getting them is easy. She orders them in lots of 100’s or 1000’s and a bit of work is required here.
In the beginning, a lot of abattoirs flatly refused to supply them due to disruption of work flow and OHS issues. You see, a big abattoir putting through say 1000 head a day is running at capacity. They don’t normally cut eyes out; they usually go down the chute with the head into the rendering plant. The floor manager needs to take a staff member out of production and implement procedure in accordance with a specific risk analysis to get the eyes. As far as production goes, there’s more money in rib fillet or bacon, so why would they bother?
Because Mr Vivi has a way with the meat men, he’s convinced them to go through the above procedure to extract this product. The cost is we have to order 1000’s of the slippery suckers at a go.
I had the opportunity to talk to one of the floor mangers after our last order and he admitted it’s not his favourite job. It’s a bit fiddly, a bit dangerous, there’s an extra bucket on the floor (for the eyes) that can get in the way. You see, an abattoir is a regimented production line. There is a set procedure for removing the commercial items (tongue, cheek meat etc.) out of the head when they are on the head chain (stock moves through the floor on mechanised lines or chains). Commercial items in turn are placed on conveyors that whisk them off for packaging, so a bucket on the floor is not a usual risk.
So when you ask your butcher for 30 eyes and he can’t do it for you, you know it’s possibly not for his want to help you, but because the abattoir’s not going to drop knives to cut a few out for you. So all you have to do to have as many eyes as you want delivered to your door is fax or email an order to Miss Vivi and she’ll take care of the rest.
