AMAarchives of neurology & psychiatry . ,^ V- ;^J^^. Fig. 3.—General parahsis : This shows, in low magnification, a s\varm-!ikecolony of spirochetes just to the right of the center of the figure. Figures 3 and 4 are photographic reproductions from Plate 4, Figures 15and 16, in F. Jahnels article Ueber einige Beziehungen der Spirochaten zudem paralytischen Krankheitsvorgang, Ztschr. f. d. ges. Xeurol. u. Psychiat.;Orig. 42:21. 1918. Jahnels method of staining. because of postmortem migration of the parasites, possibly into partsthat they may not be able to enter durinq the life of the patient;

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AMAarchives of neurology & psychiatry . ,^ V- ;^J^^. Fig. 3.—General parahsis : This shows, in low magnification, a s\varm-!ikecolony of spirochetes just to the right of the center of the figure. Figures 3 and 4 are photographic reproductions from Plate 4, Figures 15and 16, in F. Jahnels article Ueber einige Beziehungen der Spirochaten zudem paralytischen Krankheitsvorgang, Ztschr. f. d. ges. Xeurol. u. Psychiat.;Orig. 42:21. 1918. Jahnels method of staining. because of postmortem migration of the parasites, possibly into partsthat they may not be able to enter durinq the life of the patient; theblood vessels, for example. VIABILITY AND RESISTAXCE TO DECOMPOSITION However rapidly spirochetes may increase and diminish during thelife of the patient, after the patient is dead they may continue to live DUXLAP—GEXERAL PARALYSIS 593 for hours or days. Hauptmann found them actively motile in a caseof general paralysis forty-eight hours after death, so that in areasonably early necropsy one would expect to find their viabilitylittle affecte

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