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It looked like that, or indeed like that.
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We'll move on.
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Then there's third-stage syphilis, tertiary syphilis,
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and in this phase you have involvement of the deep tissues.
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And its symptoms are things such as what's called tabes dorsalis,
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which is a degeneration of the neurons in the spinal cord,
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and leads therefore to lack of coordination,
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to a stumbling gait, and symptoms of that kind;
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to ataxia, which means the stumbling gait.
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It also leads, in this phase,
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to cardiovascular disease, often to insanity and dementia,
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to general paralysis, and to death.