Abstract
When the Wassermann reaction was introduced, it was widely embraced as marking the end of all diagnostic difficulties in syphilis. In addition, it caused to be included in the already comprehensive domain of syphilis conditions that previously were regarded as independent or doubtful affections, and it promised to lay the foundations of a new eugenics by the exposure of latent but transmissible syphilis in either or both prospective participants in an otherwise desirable procreative venture. As time progressed, instances began to multiply in which the reliability of the reaction was brought into question. By this time, however, the serology of syphilis had become identified with almost every thought devoted to the contemplation of this far-reaching disease; and while, at the present moment, it still occupies a place of profound importance in the study of syphilis, there seems to be a growing tendency to moderate those views which once were attacked
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