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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 76, No. 4

Article | April 01, 1920

THE NATURE OF THE SUBSTANCE CAUSING THE COLLOIDAL GOLD REACTION

PAUL G. WESTON

Am J Psychiatry 1920;76:393-396.

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Warren, Penna

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The colloidal gold precipitating substance in the spinal fluid of paretics is a globulin. It is not the Wassermann reacting substance and can be separated from the latter quantitatively. This explains why one may have a paretic curve in the gold test with either a positive or negative Wassermann reaction.

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