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object-glass. I was fortunate enough to demonstrate organisms, 

 exactly similar to the bacilli described above and to those described 

 by DA RocHA Lima and Töpfer. On the photographs 3, 4 and 5 

 some bacilli are distinctly visible. I could not demonstrate these 

 organisms in clothes-lice or head-lice taken from sound persons nor 

 in house-bugs. 



The only difference was the staining, after Gkam, as these 

 organisms were easily decolorised (as da Rocha Lima also tells us) 

 whereas the cultivated bacilli were not. F'or want of material I was 

 not enabled to grow cultures from the organisms found in lice. 



Finally I examined several coverslips of the patient's blood, 

 stained after Giemsa, to detect bacilli and the bodies that various 

 researchers discovered in the white bloodcorpuscles; here and there 

 I saw in some leucocytes in the protoplasm beside the nucleus now 

 punctiform bodies, now again rods with rounded ends, sometimes 

 indented in the centre. This is exemplified in the figures 6, 7, 8, 

 9. It is especially the latter that remind one forcibly of the 

 organisms described above. Staining with methyleneblue made 

 everything clearer still. 



Whether we really have to do here with bacilli which, on account 

 of their being disposed differently in the microscopic field, present 

 different shapes, I will not venture to decide. On slightly turning 



