August von Wassermann

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German physician who created the first serologic test for syphilis in 1906

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UnknownBoring History for Sleep · The History of Syphilis — The Disease That Changed Kings 💀... · 1:49:34 · 22 May
…The Wassermann test, developed in 1906 by August von Wassermann and his colleagues, just a year after Schauden and Hoffmann's identification of the organism, added a diagnostic tool that transformed the clinical management of the disease in ways that were as significant as the treatment itself.…
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