biography
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| (1877–1967)
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| biography:
| Paediatrician, born in Bolgar, Hungary. On the medical faculty at the University of Vienna, Austria (1902–23), he was a pioneer in studying childhood diseases such as scarlet fever, infantile diarrhoea, diphtheria, and other diseases, including tuberculosis, serum sickness, and allergies, a new field of medicine. He developed what came to be known as the Schick test (1913), which determines a child's susceptibility to diphtheria. In 1923 he went to Mt Sinai Hospital (New York City) to direct paediatrics, becoming a US citizen in 1929. Recipient of the Howland Medal (1954), he helped found the American Academy of Paediatrics. In addition to various specialized works, he wrote Child Care Today (1933). |
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