AN INVESTIGATION OF AMERICAN GENTIAN VIOLETS REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIC
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Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://jb.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ AN REPORT OF COMMIrTTEE ON BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIC PREPARED BY , CHAIRMAN Received for publication June 9, 1922 This report is a continuation of the work on American stains that has recently been published in this journal (Conn, 1922). In this earlier report fairly definite conclusions were reached in regard to fuchsin and methylen blue but the work on gentian violet was regarded as being unfinished. Gentian violet is a term which does not refer to any definite chemical compound, but rather to a mixture of dyes of a certain group. The term was apparently originated by Grtibler and is not recognized in the dye industry or in the textile industry. The dyes in the mixtures sold as gentian violet all belong to the pararosanilin series but at the present time the different manufacturers and dealers nearly all sell different mixtures of these dyes under the name of gentian violet. This being the situation, the best use for the term gentian violet seems to be as a generic designation