To help you recover: 1  Rest if you have severe pain. Otherwise, stay active. 2  Try using a heating pad on a low or medium setting for 15 to 20 minutes every 2 or 3 hours. Try a warm shower in place of one session with the heating pad. 3  Do the exercises that your doctor or physical therapist suggests.
Named after A. von Wassermann. The Wassermann test is based on the ability of blood serum of syphilitic patients to form a complex with the appropriate antigen that absorbs complement (a component of normal serum); erythrocytes of sheepâs blood serve as the antigen, and the antibody is human blood serum.
Capone was treated for gonorrhea in 1925 and was reported to have a positive Wassermann test in 1931. The accuracy of the Wassermann test especially given the ways the results were collected in the Alabama heat and sent off to PHS laboratories, is yet another issue needing further analysis.