Word: wassermann
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Stuffiness Is Out. They threw out the stuffy editorials, the colorless layouts, the long "short" stories, and crusaded for public health, clean politics and flogging for child-beaters. They began campaigning against venereal disease, wrote a widely reprinted ad headlined OF COURSE I'LL TAKE A WASSERMANN. Circulation sat up, got up, and climbed...
...York's tabloid Daily News headlined: POX VACCINE . . . MAY SIDETRACK CUPID. The story: because vaccination sometimes causes a false positive Wassermann, vaccinated couples, required by state .aw to pass the Wassermann test before getting a marriage license, would have to delay their weddings until their vaccinations wear...
...write it if this were not the truth. Here it is not as it is in your country. Here one must be able to prove what one says." Declared the Moscow News: "Simonov's play is really an attack on American illness ... it is nothing but a Wassermann test...
...first compulsory civilian mass attack on syphilis in history, the city had blood-tested, tagged and treated virtually every infected citizen. A unique state law requires every Alabamian between 14 and 50 to take a Wassermann-like test. After some trial runs in a few small rural counties, health officers two months ago started the big test in Jefferson County...
...spite of Surgeon General Thomas Parran's efforts, the national fight against venereal disease has not been going well. Syphilis last year was up 21%; gonorrhea, 28%. Thirty states now require a Wassermann test of prospective brides and grooms, three more of grooms, three others an affidavit of freedom from infection. But these reach only a small proportion of the whole population...