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OBERLIN'S THREE STAGES- Jacob Wassermann - Harcourt Brace ($2.50). In the first of the three stories of this book, a man softly enters the bedroom of a young girl about to be sent to an asylum. She is his ward. She is tubercular. She loves life and is bidding it farewell as she dresses herself a last time before her mirror. She is so preoccupied that she fails to notice her guardian's entrance, or a shooting riot that is in progress in the street. He sits in a shadow watching, then steals away, deeply moved. . . . The scene...
Indicator. Dr. Botelho's test for the presence of cancer has been so far developed that last week the French Academy of Medicine announced that it has been perfected. Its principle is similar to that of the Wassermann test. If it detects cancer in the early stages, the Botelho indicator test will be of incalculable benefit, for one or another of the recognized cancer treatments can stop the spread of the disease when applied to early stages...
Rapid Blood Tests. The careful Wassermann blood test for syphilis requires five reagents and almost 24 hours' reacting time, an inconvenience to the diagnostician and a nerve-racking wait for the patient. Dr. R. le Kahn of the Michigan State Health Department demonstrated a new test which requires only one reagent and 15 minutes to show definitely the blood condition. His department and the U. S. Navy have adopted his quick method, it was said...
...were, the Tribune editors picked out a husky reporter, one F . . . W . . ., 30 years old, 220 lb in weight, 6 ft. 1 in. in height; had him examined by such highly reputed physicians as Dr. Louis E. Schmidt and Dr. Eugene Laurence Hartigan. They tapped him, sounded him, made Wassermann tests, pronounced him "an exceptionally healthy young man." Not so the charlatans. His reports on their personalities, their diagnoses and their cures he made unabashedly, and the Tribune bravely dealt with seven of them last week...
BABER, OR THE LOST YEARS- Jacob Wassermann (Translated by Harry Hansen)-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). The author of Gold and The World's Illusion towers on the European scene as a very great novelist. His concern is with the spiritual crises of deep, positive natures under the stresses and distortions of post-War civilization in Germany. Here his framework is the Enoch Arden dilemma: a War prisoner home from Siberia after six years, finds his wife married to a charitable cause. She has been transformed from a warm, passive complement to his life into an active self-sufficient woman...