Word: wassermanns
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Pursers are taught how to bandage, administer laxatives, penicillin, sulfa drugs, morphine, plasma. They learn to make chest X rays and Wassermann tests, to immunize against typhus, tetanus, typhoid, smallpox. They get a smattering of psychology, more than a smattering of ship sanitation...
...tied, küss-die-hand Viennese who has charm off stage as well as on, and knows it, Karlweis was bred to old-world culture. His father, a friend of Johann Strauss's, was a well known playwright; his sister married the late great novelist Jakob Wassermann (The World's Illusion). World War I, in which Karlweis was cited four times for bravery, picked him up a law student, set him down an actor. By the mid-'20s he was playing in Vienna, Munich and Berlin opposite a flowering Elisabeth Bergner, a budding Marlene Dietrich...
Pinta does not hurt, does not make patients ill in the early stages, but: 1) it produces unsightly blotches; 2) patients usually have positive Wassermann and Kahn tests (their doctors are likely to tell them that they have a venereal disease); 3) anti-syphilis drugs help early pinta, but once the white spots develop, nothing restores the skin to normal; 4) the disease goes on & on (one of Dr. Lieberthal's patients has had it for twelve years...
...January day last year, a woman visited Gynecologist Joseph Steven Deane in Queens County, New York City, and said she had syphilis. Several doctors had told her she was mistaken but she thought they were "in league" against her. Dr. Deane had a Wassermann test made by the Board of Health. When the test came out negative, he suspected his patient was suffering from syphilophobia-a symptom often caused by fear of sex. Thinking he could cure the woman more easily if he humored her, Dr. Deane changed the Board of Health report to "positive." Then he prescribed...
...They are treated by a staff of 300 doctors, who are paid about 20 pesos an hour (80?) for their work. Dr. Morales, a syphilologist, is most concerned with preventive medicine. Every member is X-rayed once a year, given a tuberculin test, a complete clinical examination, a Wassermann and Kahn test for syphilis. Whenever a member is found to have tuberculosis, syphilis, rheumatism or heart disease, he is immediately given treatment, paid his full salary from the Caja. Under law, his employer must hold his job for him until six months after he is pronounced cured...