In Memoriam Günter Wassermann

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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Wassermann Reaction

Memoriam.

George W. Housner, Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, emeritus, died after a short illness on 10 November 2008, just a few weeks before his 98th birthday. He was in the retirement home in Pasadena where he had lived for several years. For all of us who knew George, this marked the end of an era. Few people have guided and nurtured a field the way George led earthquake engineering over a per...

Concerning the Wassermann Reaction

tionally collected and kept for some time, is a very poor control. Some positive sera give a complete fixation of the usual one or more MHD of the complement in a 1 in 200 dilution; others can do so in 1 in 5 dilution only. The margin.of variation allowed for in this control, 5 to 200, is too wide to be useful in indicating whether the antigen-antibody systems involved in the reaction of comple...

Serological Wassermann problem cases.

The subject of Wassermann "Problem" cases is of interest not only to the serologist but to the physician or clinician, upon whom devolves the responsibility for diagnosis. In the past there has been too little critical judgment by clinicians in assessing the results of the Wassermann reaction, and many practitioners may still regard a positive Wassermann reaction as in itself a diagnosis of syp...