Word: wassermann
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Hospital internes on emergency call sometimes have queer cases to.handle in a hurry. Last week in Manhattan, Interne David Wassermann of City Hospital had the queerest one in his four-month career. He found his patient, a small, plucky handyman named Marion Garey, wrapped in elevator cables over the elevator shaft of a 16-story hotel. The cables held the man so tightly that he could move only his left arm. And with this he was dully smoking a cigaret when Dr. Wassermann arrived...
...patrons (mostly Negroes) of Philadelphia's Nixon Grand Theatre, Manager Si Cohen last week was preparing a rare treat. During the run of Damaged Goods, a photoplay dealing with the ravages of venereal disease, he planned to give on the stage at each evening show one free Wassermann test. To 100 lucky coupon holders, less exploitational Wassermanns were to be available daily at nearby clinics...
...either Look or LIFE. Picture makes no attempt to create sensations or cover the news, goes in for illustrated expositions of topics like the life of a chorus girl, the dangers of lightning, "Strange Animal Diets." what happens to you in a Turkish bath, how Connecticut operates its premarital, Wassermann testing, the way to give a bum a new lease on life, how San Francisco cultivates potential artists, aged...
...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...