Word: wassermanns
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...this light that we publicly condemn the fascist position towards science. The racial theories which they advocate have been demolished time and again. We need only point to the work of Heinrich Hertz in physics, Fritz Haber and Richard Willstatter in chemistry, Ludwig Traube, Paul Ehrlich and August Wassermann in biology and medicine, all German Jews and all empirical [observational and experimental] scientists. The charge that theory leads to a crippling of experimental research is ... a denial of the whole history of modern physics. From Copernicus and Kepler on, all the great figures in Western science have insisted, in deed...
...life. Twenty-six States have laws aimed at preventing the marriage of infected persons, but the American Social Hygiene Association regards the laws of only nine of these States as effective.* Among the most thoroughgoing is a New York law which requires physical examinations as well as Wassermann or Kahn tests for syphilis from all prospective brides and grooms. Tests for gonorrhea are not required, since they are not yet reliable or practical enough for large-scale...
...doctor saw that the man was almost dead from a complete fracture of the left lower leg and from loss of blood through many lacerations. To get to his patient, 5-ft. 11-in., 200-lb. Dr. Wassermann had to walk along a steel girder, eight inches wide, atop the 16-story shaft. On that dizzying perch he had to amputate the leg, disentangle the man from the cables...
...morphine which Dr. Wassermann injected into helpless Marion Garey was less to deaden pain, which the man no longer felt, than to prevent him from collapsing from shock. After giving the morphine, the doctor applied a tourniquet, cut through the flesh of the broken leg, applying hemostats to the blood vessels he severed. He had no need to saw the bones; they were broken through. Twelve minutes after the morphine injection...
...Wassermann, having bandaged the leg stump, handed the man to observers on the roof of the hotel, inched off the narrow girder, took his patient to City Hospital. There a surgeon re-amputated Marion Carey's left stump above the knee so that he may wear an artificial leg with comfort...