<P> The method is named after its inventor , the Danish scientist Hans Christian Gram ( 1853 -- 1938 ) , who developed the technique while working with Carl Friedländer in the morgue of the city hospital in Berlin in 1884 . Gram devised his technique not for the purpose of distinguishing one type of bacterium from another but to make bacteria more visible in stained sections of lung tissue . He published his method in 1884 , and included in his short report the observation that the typhus bacillus did not retain the stain . </P>
<P> The method is named after its inventor , the Danish scientist Hans Christian Gram ( 1853 -- 1938 ) , who developed the technique while working with Carl Friedländer in the morgue of the city hospital in Berlin in 1884 . Gram devised his technique not for the purpose of distinguishing one type of bacterium from another but to make bacteria more visible in stained sections of lung tissue . He published his method in 1884 , and included in his short report the observation that the typhus bacillus did not retain the stain . </P>
what is the purpose of crystal violet used in the gram stain procedure
what is the purpose of crystal violet used in the gram stain procedure
to make bacteria more visible in stained sections of lung tissue
to make bacteria more visible in stained sections of lung tissue