All 4 Uses of
syphilis
in
Arrowsmith
- He had been seeking a precipitation test for the diagnosis of syphilis which should be quicker and simpler than the Wassermann.†
Chpt 20 *
- Pickerbaugh apparently believed that this research would take six weeks; Martin had hoped to do it in two years; and with the present interruptions it would require two hundred, by which time the Pickerbaughs would have eradicated syphilis and made the test useless.†
Chpt 21
- But Holabird had run wild, the newspapers had reported wonders, and in on Martin poured demands that he send out phage; inquiries as to whether he did not have a phage for tuberculosis, for syphilis; offers that he take charge of this epidemic and that.†
Chpt 36
- Terry meditated, " 'Member there was one of these Nobel-prize winners, Slim, one of these plumb fanatics that instead of blowing in the prize spent the whole thing on chimps and other apes, and he got together with another of those whiskery old birds, and they ducked up alleys and kept the anti-viv folks from prosecuting them, and settled the problem of the transfer of syphilis to lower animals?†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(syphilis) a sexually transmitted disease that, if treated early, can be completely cured with antibiotics