Gram stain

Two words, grams has a capital G and an apostrophe S.

It could also just be gram stain.

Noun from 1903.

It is number one, a method, ooh, this is a long definition, a method for the differential staining of bacteria by treatment with a watery solution of iodine and the iodide solution.

They were a Danish physician who died in 1938.

So 35 years before that was when this whole thing got invented and created.

And, yeah, the gram stain.

Ah, gram, you stain the carpet again with your iodine.

It's a completely different, much more stripped down biological blueprint.

And when it comes to figuring out the specifics of that blueprint for a given bacterial infection, the most important diagnostic tool a lab has is gram staining, right? Developed by H.C.

Graham.

Yeah, all the way back in 1884.