Wright's Stain
notes: label: Description
content: Brown glass bottle with a black screw cap, and a paper label that reads in part “Wright's Stain 10 gms / (Dry Powder) / Certified for use in: Blood staining / Catalog No. 524 / Pharmaceutical Laboratories / NATIONAL ANILINE DIVISION / ALLIED CHEMICAL & DYE CORPORATION.” Wright's stain, classically a mixture of eosin (red) and methylene (blue), facilitates the differentiation of blood cell types. James Homer Wright (1869-1928), a pathologist in Boston, devised the stain in 1902.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth M. Heller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0325.041
label: accession number
content: 1999.0325
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0325.041
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Compound Dye
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.4 cm x 4.2 cm; 2 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in