RAPID PRECIPITATION PHASE OF THE KAHN TEST FOR SYPHILIS

14 July 1923

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 81 (2) , 88-92
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1923.02650020006003

Abstract

The active interest which is being shown at present in precipitation tests for syphilis brings to mind the fact that practically no interest was shown in these tests in the early years of the Wassermann reaction. The precipitation tests proposed by Michaelis¹in 1907, Jacobstahl²in 1910, Bruck and Hidaka³in 1911 and Hecht⁴in 1914 attracted practically no attention. The medical world apparently desired to give the complicated Wassermann test a thorough trial before turning to simpler tests. And the Wassermann test, as is well known, has been given more than a thorough trial. Indeed, it has been studied perhaps more intensively than any other test related to medical diagnosis. The extensive studies on the standardization of this test by Kolmer and his co-workers, only recently completed, illustrate to what extent workers have applied themselves in attempting to solve its manifold problems. Thanks to these

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