Word: wassermanns
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...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...
...modern history of syphilis began in 1905 when Zoologist Fritz Schaudinn of Germany discovered the specific cause of infection. One year later August von Wassermann of Germany devised his Famed blood test for diagnosing the disease. In 1910 Biochemist Paul Ehrlich, once more of Germany, after 605 laboratory experiments, finally hit upon a positive ure for syphilis. Popularly called 606 or Salvarsan, this Ehrlich remedy was technically a compound of arsenic known as arsphenamine. With the cause & cure well in hand, world medicine was fully equipped to move forcefully against one of the worst scourges of the human race...
...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...
Agent Greenburger exulted that Evelyn Nesbit had made him more money in four months than Wassermann had in four years. Exclaimed Evelyn Nesbit, as she took a vacation from night-club work, "I represent an era!" Grumped Harry K. Thaw: "I don't even know the woman...