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SPORULATING FORMS 



Besides the speculating forms or segmenting forms, 

 we can recognize also the presegmenting forms, in 

 which the pigment begins to collect into a single mass 

 and the chromatin gets split into a number of frag- 

 ments. These are even commoner than the final or 

 sporulating forms, in which the segments or spores are 

 arranged around a central mass of pigment, though 

 frequently here also the appearances do not correspond 

 with the diagrammatic exactitude of the text-books. 

 The segmenting and presegmenting forms are best seen 

 in a case of regular quartan. 



Fig. 8. 



Quartan Parasites . 

 Simple Tertian 

 Malignant Tertian 

 Quotidian (after Ziemann) 



segmenting forms 



Malignant Tertian Sporulating Forms. Rarely 

 seen in the circulation. There are eight to ten 

 chromatin masses (Fig. 8). 



Simple Tertian Sporulating Forms. Here the 

 whole parasite mass is larger, and fifteen or more 

 chromatin segments can be distinguished (Fig. 8). 



Quartan Sporulating Forms. The pigment is 

 placed centrally or often laterally, and grouped around 

 it can be seen several, six to eight, chromatin masses. 



