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Basic Fuchsin for Treponema pallida . . . . . . 349 



Breed^s Stain for staining and counting bacteria in milk . . 350 



Brilliant Cresyl Blue for reticulated cells, platelets, etc. 351 



Carbol Crystal Violet for fibrin network in blood smears 352 

 Carbol Fuchsin for Treponema pallida and other spiro- 



cnaeres •• •• •• •• •• •• ' * jjo 



Carbol Fuchsin for tubercle bacilli and other acid-fast 



bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 



Carbol Fuchsin - Borrel Blue for leprosy and tubercle 



bacilli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 



Carbol Fuchsin - Brilliant Yellow for tubercle bacilli 



in sputum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 



Casteneda's Stain, for rickettsiae and elementary bodies 356 



Crystal Violet for bacterial capsules . . . . . . 357 



Crystal Violet, a simple stain for spirochaetes . . . . 358 



Dahlia, for Heinz bodies in blood smears . . . . . . 358 



Dorner's Stain for spores . . . . . . . . • • 359 



Ehrlich's Triacid Stain for blood 359 



EosiN - Gentian Violet for basal bodies . . . . 360 

 EosiN - Methylene Blue - Basic Fuchsin, a general stain 



for bacteria, blood and spirochaetes . . . . . . 361 



Field's Stain for thick blood smears for malarial parasites 362 

 Flagella Stain (Cesares-Gil) for colon and typhoid 



organisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 



Fontana Stain for spirochaetae . . . . . . • • 3^3 



Gentian Violet (Noland) a combined fixative and stain for 



protozoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 



GiEMSA Stain for blood, malarial parasites, Treponema 



pallida^ trypanosomes, etc. . . . . . . • • 3^5 



GiEMSA - May - Grunwald Stain for blood, malarial 



parasites, trypanosomes, etc. . . . . . . . . 368 



Gram's Iodine - Aniline Gentian Violet, for spirochaetae 



of Vincent's Agina and for Trep. pallidum . . . . 371 



Gram's Stain for bacteria 368 



Gram's Stain (Jensen) for bacteria . . . . . . 369 



Gram's Stain (Kopeloff and Beerman) for bacteria . . 370 



Haematoxylin (Phosphotungstic, Mallory) for entamoeba 372 

 Haematoxylin (Weigert) - Bordeaux Red for permanent 



preparations of anophcline midgut . . . . . . 372 



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