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INDEX 



Potassium metaborate, as ingredient of 

 Davenport, Windle, and Rhlnes's 

 developer, 617 

 Potassium nitrate, as ingredient of preserva- 

 tives, 179-180 

 for cleaning diatoms, 39 

 Potassium oxalate, as ingredient of Rodri- 

 guez's formaldehyde accelerator, 

 614 

 in, Herrera's silver diammine stain, 578 

 Pugsley's method for reticulocytes, 419 

 Potassium permanganate, as ingredient of, 

 Gouillart and Bronardel's differentiator, 

 520; Kozowsky's differentiator, 520; 

 Mallory's hematoxylin, 292; Pol's differ- 

 entiator, 520 ; Stevenel's methylene blue, 

 318; Watson's acid-alum-hematoxylin, 

 290; Weil's differentiator, 520 

 as mordant, for Henneguy's magenta, 315 

 in Gemelli's method for bacterial flagella, 

 482 

 as stain, 611 

 for, 



bleaching, 261; cleaning diatoms, 39; 

 differentiating, (carmine stains, 295, 

 O'Leary's brazilin, 411); preserving 

 osmic acid solutions, 193, 237 

 in Ono's method for spirochetes, 480 

 Potassium phosphate; tribasic, as ingredient 



of Landois's macerating fluid, 264 

 Potassium sulfate, as ingredient of, 



Braus's fixative, 233; EUermann's fixa- 

 tive, 218; Fish's fixative, 204; Foa's 

 fixative, 216; Guthrie's fixative, 217; 

 Hamilton's fixative, 232; Heidenhain's 

 fixative, 218; Hultgren and Andersson's 

 fixatives, 233; Klotz and Coburn's pre- 

 servatives, 180; Klotz and MacLachan's 

 preservatives, 180; Krueger's fixative, 

 218; Landsteiner's fixative, 233; Maxi- 

 mow's fixative, 204; Milller's fixative, 

 232; Murray's fixative, 204; von Orth's 

 fixative, 233; Peck's preservatives, 180; 

 Roques and Jude's methylene blue, 318; 

 Schridder's fixative, 205; Spuler's fixa- 

 tive, 217; Zenker's fixative, 217 

 Potassium sulfite, as ingredient of Pol's 

 differentiator, 520 

 as mordant for Laguesse's triple stain, 364 

 Potato, actinomyces in, 501 

 Potenza's fixatives, paraldehyde-acetic, 190 



picric-acetic, 222 

 Pottenger's magenta, 316 



in Pottenger's method for acid-fast bac- 

 teria, 478 

 Potter's method for macroglea, 414 

 Powell, see Hall, 455 

 Power, see Harris, 287 

 Pranter's method for elastic fibers, 388 

 Pregnancy cells, 425 



Preservatives, 175-181 

 classification of, 175 

 definition, 175 



explanation of classification, 175, 176 

 for, 



algae, (Eckerts), 178; algae, (Kirchner), 

 180; algae, (Pfieffer), 179; arthropoda, 

 (Pampel), 177; fungus-infected plant 

 tissues, 177; green plants, (Wood), 177; 

 mammalian embryos, 180; parasitic 

 protozoa, 178; ticks, (Monnig), 177 

 formaldehyde as, 175 

 formulas for, 176-181 

 Preservative-stain combinations, Alcorn and 

 Yeagor's, 177 

 Moore's, 177 

 Price-Jones method for blood, 419 

 Priestly's preservatives, 178 



in Priestly's method for fungus in skin 

 scrapings, 505 

 Prince's method for nervous tissues, 411 

 Pritchard's, developer, 619 



in Bohm's method for nerve endings, 

 534 

 fixative, 227, 250 



method for mitochondria and Golgi, 590 

 Pritchard on strychnine as narcotic, 265 

 Proca's method for bacterial spores, 486 

 Procartilage, mentioned in Shumway's triple 

 stain, 372 

 Kostowiecki's method for, 327 

 Schmorl's method for, 385 

 Proescher's method for fat, 449 

 Proescher and Arkush's celestin blue, 313 

 Proescher and Drueger's methylene blue, 318 

 Proescher, Zapata and McNaught's double 



stain, 372 

 Prokofieva's fixative, 230 

 Propaeolin for staining spirochetes in sec- 

 tions, (Nickiforoff), 498 

 Propanol, see Isopropanol, 623 

 Proprietary compounds, 3 

 Proprionic acid as ingredient of, Wilson's 

 Venice turpentine medium, 638 

 Zirkle's carmine balsam, 640 

 Zirkle's carmine-venice turpentine moun- 



tant, 638 

 Zirkle's fixative, 219 

 Propyl carbinol, 626 



Propylene glycol, as solvent for Randolf and 

 Mikele's magenta, 478 

 physical properties of, 623 

 Protargol, 564 



Protein silver, general remarks on, 564 

 methods, 564-568 



staining combinations with, azophloxine, 

 light green, orange G and ponceau 

 2R, 567 

 osmic acid, and carmine, 607 

 Proteus vulgaris, smear to show flagella, 470 



