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Haematoxylin - EosiN - Indigo Carmine for the differ- 

 ential staining of vaginal smears . . . . . . 373 



Iodine - Eosin for intestinal amoebae and flagellates . . 374 



Janus Green, B for staining oocysts of coccidia in faeces . . 375 



Janus Green - Neutral Red, for supravital staining of blood 376 



Jenner Stain for the cytological examination of blood . . 377 

 Leishman Stain for blood, malarial parasites, trypanosomes, 



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Lugol's Iodine - Eosin for differentiating between spores 



and vegetative forms in bacterial smears . . . . 379 



Macchiavello's Stain, for rickettsiae 



Malachite Green a simple method of staining spores . . 380 



Malachite Green - Basic Fuchsin, for yeasts . . . . 381 



Malachite Green - Pyronin - Crystal Violet (Sandi- 



ford), a contrast stain for gonococci and meningococci. . 381 

 May - Grunwald Stain for the cytological examination 



of blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382 



Methyl Green - Pyronin, for gonococci . . . . . . 382 



Methyl Violet ioB, for the direct staining of elementary 



bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 



Methylene Blue - Carbol Fuchsin for flagella and cap- 

 sules in bacterial films . . . . . . . . . . 384 



Methylene Blue - Gentian Violet for gonococci . . 385 



Methylene Blue - Safranin for polar bodies in bacteria 385 

 New Fuchsin - Congo Red, for bacterial cell walls, particu- 

 larly for B. colt and B. cereus . . . . . . . . 386 



Newman's Stain, a single solution for defatting and staining 



milk smears for counting bacteria . . . . . . 387 



Nile Blue Sulphate for protozoa, yeasts, etc. . . . . 388 



Papanicolaou Stain, a differential stain for vaginal smears 388 

 Peroxidase Stain (Cowdrey's method) for blood . . . . 389 



PiCRO - Methyl Blue - Eosin for urinary casts . . . . 390 



PiNACYANOL - Neutral Red, for Supravital staining of blood 392 

 Ponder's Stain (Kinyoun's modification) for the differ- 

 entiation of metachromatic granules of diphtheria 

 organisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 



Pyronin - Alphanaphthol (Graham) for oxidase granules 



in blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 



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