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MuciCARMiNE (Southgate) for mucin . . . . . . i66 



MuciHAEMATEiN for mucus . . . . . . . . . . i66 



Nadi Reaction for oxidase granules . . . . . . . . 1 67 



Naphthol Blue Black - Haematoxylin - Brilliant Pur- 



PURiN - AzoFUCHSiN, for collagen, smooth muscle, etc. 168 



Naphthol Green B - Haematoxylin (Weigert) for con- 

 nective tissue . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 



Neutral Red - Fast Green for staining both Gram-positive 



and Gram-negative organisms in sections . . . . 170 



Nile Blue Sulphate for demonstrating fatty acids and 



neutral fats . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 



Nile Blue - Picro Fuchsin (Murray-Drew) for bacteria 



and actinomyces in pathological tissues . . . . 172 



Orange G - Crystal Violet (Bensley) for secretion ante- 

 cedents of serous or zymogenic cells . . . . . . 173 



Orcein for elastic fibres and connective tissue . . . . 174 



Orcein - Aniline Blue - Orange G, a differential stain for 



elastic fibres, collagen and keratin . . . . . . 175 



Orcein - Aniline Safranin for elastic and connective 



tissue fibres . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 



Orcein - Giemsa Stain for syphilitic tissue . . . . 177 



Orcein - Picro Fuchsin (Van Gieson) for elastic and colla- 

 gen fibres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 



OsMic Acid, a rapid technique for staining fat in frozen 



sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 



Pasini's Stain (Improved) for differentiation of connective 



tissues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 



Periodic Acid - Celestin Blue, for human and animal 

 pituitary glands, demonstrating both muco-protein 

 precuspors of the gonadtrophins ., .. .. 181 



Periodic Acid - Feulgen Fuchsin (Hotchkiss) for Poly- 

 saccharide structures . . . . . . . . • • 183 



Phloxin - Haematoxylin for Hyaline in animal tissues 185 



Phloxin - Methylene BIue, rapid smear technique for 



Negri bodies in brain tissue (j. R. Dawson's method) . . 186 



Phloxin - Methylene Blue - Azur B, a very rapid 

 modification of Mallory's original technique for 

 normal and pathological tissues . . . . . . 187 



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