Paul Reiter 1909-1953

From chemotherapy to signal therapy (1909-2009): A century pioneered by Paul Ehrlich.

Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), a German microbiologist who was awarded a 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his pioneer work on the antibody production, pioneered the modern chemotherapy by discovering his magic bullet for syphilis, called "606" or "Salvarsan" in 1909 with a Japanese young scientist, Sahachiro Hata (1873-1938) from "Denken" (Institute for Infectious Diseases, now called IMS...

Virginia Apgar (1909-1974)

Virginia Apgar worked as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, administering drugs that reduce women's pain during childbirth, in the mid-twentieth century US. In 1953, Apgar created a scoring system using five easily assessable measurements, including heart rate and breathing rate, to evaluate whether or not infants would benefit from medical attention immediately after birth. Apgar's system showed...

Virginia Apgar (1909-1974)

Virginia Apgar worked as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, administering drugs that reduce women's pain during childbirth, in the mid-twentieth century US. In 1953, Apgar created a scoring system using five easily assessable measurements, including heart rate and breathing rate, to evaluate whether or not infants would benefit from medical attention immediately after birth. Apgar's system showed...

Medical Examination Questions, 1909

Reiter treponene in syphilis serology.

Origin Attempts carried out about the year 1920 at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute of Experimental Therapy in Berlin to culture treponemes from eighty to ninety patients with primary syphilis, were successful in seven of these cases. One of the strains obtained, denoted as B 36, was said to have remained pathogenic for rabbits (Wassermann and Ficker, 1922). Reiter (1960), who continued the work of...