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FIG. I. — THE PARASITE OF TERTIAN FEVER, H.liMAMCEBA VIVAX 

 (ROSS). HIGHLY MAGNIFIED. 



Nos. I, 2, 3, 4, show the growth and the changing shape of the parasite 

 within the blood-corpuscle; Nos. 3, 4, etc., show the aggregation of 

 the pigment, melanin, in the parasite ; No. 5 is a sporocyte, which 

 in Nos. 6, 7, and 8, shows the several stages of sporulation ; No. 9 

 shows the spores derived from a single sporocyte, escaped from the 

 blood-corpuscle and free in the blood-plasm, ready to infect new 

 corpuscles ; No, 10 is a male gametocyte, removed from the body 

 of man, and either in the stomach oi Anopheles or on a. microscope- 

 slide, forming there flagella or spermatozoa, a, Parasite ; b, red 

 blood-corpuscle; c, spore ; rf, granules of pigment, melanin; n, flagellum 

 or spermatozoon. (From Thayer.) 



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FIG. 2.— VARIOUS STAGES WHICH THE PARASITE OF THE ./E.STIVO- 

 AUTUMNAL FEVER, H/EMOMENAS PRECOX (ROSS), PASSES 

 THROUGH IN THE BODY OF THE MOSQUITO ANOPHELES. 

 MAGNIFIED 2,O0O TIMES. AFTER ROSS AND FIELDING-OULD. 



No. I, Flagella or spermatozoa from male gametocyte (see Fig. i above) ; 

 No. 2, flagellum or spermatozoon entering and fertilizing the female 

 gametocyte; No. 3. the fertilized cell or zygote; Nos. i, 2, 3, are 

 found in the blood in the stomach of the Anopheles: No, 4, the 

 fertilized cell piercing the wall of the stomach of the mosquito to 

 come to rest at No 5, between the epithelial lining of the stomach 

 and the muscular sheath. 



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