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<blockquote data-quote="Colin of Kent" data-source="post: 1959259" data-attributes="member: 468270"><p>They were, by comparison to today's fingersticks, enormous (about 10 cm long) and required about sixty times the volume of blood that today's strips ask for. Many's the time I spent what seemed like several minutes trying to (a) make a deep enough injury to yield the required quantity and then (b) squeeze and squeeze like a lemon until I'd got enough. Then you had to wait 60 seconds before wiping off, then wait another 60 before you could compare the bi-colour square to the legend on the side of the tub... and hope there was something that resembled one of them...</p><p></p><p>This picture is a lot like my first ever setup:</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.sciencephoto.com/image/283949/800wm" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Colin of Kent, post: 1959259, member: 468270"] They were, by comparison to today's fingersticks, enormous (about 10 cm long) and required about sixty times the volume of blood that today's strips ask for. Many's the time I spent what seemed like several minutes trying to (a) make a deep enough injury to yield the required quantity and then (b) squeeze and squeeze like a lemon until I'd got enough. Then you had to wait 60 seconds before wiping off, then wait another 60 before you could compare the bi-colour square to the legend on the side of the tub... and hope there was something that resembled one of them... This picture is a lot like my first ever setup: [IMG]https://www.sciencephoto.com/image/283949/800wm[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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