Word: wassermann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning an organized, sustained campaign against the venereal diseases, a campaign in which the public is participating on a tremendous scale. Throughout the country, women's clubs, the junior chambers of commerce, and similar organizations are aiding in dissemination of knowledge. Intelligent people are voluntarily submitting themselves to Wassermann tests as examples to others...
...examination of the spinal fluid showed a normal cell count and protein content as well as a negative Wassermann reaction. The diagnosis of Disseminated Sclerosis of the Spinal Cord was made and concurred in by two eminent London neurologists. Unfortunately a post mortem examination was not permitted...
...husband, having long ago forgotten a past indiscretion, may then infect his wife. So that a mother, unaware that death has ever lurked within her, may pass it to the babe growing in her womb." Constructively, the Ladies' Home Journal backed up the article by editorially endorsing a Wassermann test for every pregnant woman and as a routine premarital requirement...
...William F. X. Geoghan began crusading against "racketeers" who, he charged, had induced students in six Brooklyn high schools to sell their companions 600 contraceptive devices. At Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College (Stillwater), the Student Council received a petition with 602 signatures demanding that all entering students be given the Wassermann blood test for syphilis...
...shamefacedly sneak to quacks, urologists, and skin specialists. Henceforth the 14,000 doctors of New York City are to function as "shock troops" in the war against syphilis. They may send patients to any one of the Health Department's 14 diagnostic centres, get back without charge confidential Wassermann reports. Such patients will get free antisyphilitic drugs and nursing service from the city, where needed. Special medical investigators will track down sources of infection, put them under treatment. When money is available, great physicians cooperating in the public war will receive some pay for their generous services...