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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover, original German text, 5 ill, 49pps, 2nd expanded printing, important work by Schick working at a children's clinic in Vienna on nutrition written for doctors and educated laymen. Stamp on front cover of library of Medical Society of Kings County and Academy of Medicine of Brooklyn. Schick (1877 ¿ 1967) was a Hungarian-born American pediatrician. He is the founder of the Schick test. Bela Schick was born in Balatonboglár, Hungary, and brought up in Graz, Austria, where he attended medical school. In 1902 he joined the Medicine Faculty of the University of Vienna where he remained until 1923. Studying problems of immunity, he and Clemens von Pirquet first coined the term 'allergy' as a clinical entity. His discovery of a test for susceptibility to diphtheria ("the Schick test") made him world famous. From 1923 he directed the Pediatric Department of Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. From 1936 he was also professor at Columbia University. From 1950 to 1962 Schick headed the Pediatric Department of Beth-El Hospital, Brooklyn, NY. His interests included the nutrition of the newborn and feeding problems in children.