Giemsa Stain

Thu Aug 16 18:20:06 BRT 2001

Jake,

Good point.  I have always written it "Giemsa's" stain, but when my papers
go to publication the editors always remove the "'s."

Phil 

> From: Jake Jacobson <jacobsr at cc.huji.ac.il>
> Reply-To: leish-l at bdt.org.br
> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:28:52 -0300
> To: Multiple recipients of list <leish-l at bdt.org.br>
> Subject: Re: Giemsa Stain
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> Giemsa stain is the stain of choice for most Leishmaniacs, either for
> tissue amastigotes or promastigotes. Why is it that Giemsa is not written
> Giemsa's after the inventor of the stain Gustav Giemsa (1867-1948)?  Shute
> and Maryon, in their wonderful book "Laboratory technique for the study of
> malaria" , write Field's stain, Maurer's dots, Ross's black spores, but
> both Giemsa and Leishman are without the 's. Even George Gurr refers to
> Gurr's improved Giemsa stain in his monograph "Biological Staining
> Methods". So has anyone any thoughts why this stain is not properly
> accredited to its inventor.
> 
> 
> R . L. Jacobson MPH FIMLS PhD
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> Dr. R.L. Jacobson
> Department of Parasitology
> The Kuvin Center for Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
> The Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School
> POB 12272, Jerusalem 91120
> Israel
> Tel: 972-2-6758077
> Fax 972-2-6757425
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> Giemsa stain is the stain of choice for most Leishmaniacs, either for
> tissue amastigotes or promastigotes. Why is it that Giemsa is not written
> Giemsa's after the inventor of the stain Gustav Giemsa (1867-1948)?&nbsp;
> Shute and Maryon, in their wonderful book &quot;Laboratory technique for
> the study of malaria&quot; , write Field's stain, Maurer's dots, Ross's
> black spores, but both Giemsa and Leishman are without the 's. Even
> George Gurr refers to Gurr's improved Giemsa stain in his monograph
> &quot;Biological Staining Methods&quot;. So has anyone any thoughts why
> this stain is not properly accredited to its inventor.&nbsp; <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> R . L. Jacobson MPH FIMLS PhD<br>
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> <div>Dr. R.L. Jacobson</div>
> <div>Department of Parasitology</div>
> <div>The Kuvin Center for Study of Infectious and Tropical
> Diseases</div>
> <div>The Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School</div>
> <div>POB 12272, Jerusalem 91120</div>
> <div>Israel</div>
> <div>Tel: 972-2-6758077</div>
> <div>Fax 972-2-6757425</div>
> <a href="http://www.md.huji.ac.il/depts/parasitology/"
> EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.md.huji.ac.il/depts/parasitology/</a>
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