Schick
Historical document, translated for reference. It reflects medical knowledge of the 1920s–30s and is not medical advice.
Summary
Bela Schick (1877-1967) was a Hungarian pediatrician and epidemiologist who developed the Schick test in 1913 to determine susceptibility to diphtheria. He worked in Vienna before moving to the United States, where he became chief physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Encyclopedia article (1928–1936)
SCHICK Bela (born in 1877), known pediatrician and epidemiologist; born in Hungary, in 1900 graduated from the university in Graz (Austria), from 1902 settled as a physician in Vienna. From 1918 to 1923 he was professor of pediatrics at the University of Vienna, in 1923 moved to the United States for permanent residence. Currently lives permanently in New York, where he serves as chief physician of Mount Sinai Hospital. Is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine and several scientific societies in Europe. The main works of Schick relate to tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, as well as to the nutrition of newborn children and the question of condensed food for them. The greatest fame was acquired by the reaction he discovered in 1913 for determining susceptibility to diphtheria - see Schick reaction. The Schick reaction has received enormous distribution, it makes it possible to control susceptibility to this disease in subjects who have undergone immunization, and to determine the duration of immunity.
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“Schick.” Soviet Medical Encyclopedia. English translation of Bolshaya Meditsinskaya Entsiklopediya, 1st ed. (Moscow, 1928–1936), ed. N. A. Semashko. https://sovietmedicalencyclopedia.pages.dev/article/schick/