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Schick, Bela was born on July 16, 1877 in Bolgar, Hungary. Son of Jacob and Johanna (Pichler) Schick.
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Schick, Bela was born on July 16, 1877 in Bolgar, Hungary. Son of Jacob and Johanna (Pichler) Schick.
He was 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 City. 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 later interests included the nutrition of the newborn and feeding problems in children.
Young Bela Schick quoted the Talmud: "The world is kept alive by the breath of children," to help persuade his father to allow him to pursue continued education in pediatrics, rather than to join the family grain merchant business in Graz, Austria. Schick became assistant at the Children's Clinic in Vienna, and later associate professor of pediatrics at Vienna University.
He emigrated to the United States, and in 1923 became pediatrician-in-chief at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. He later (1936) was appointed clinical professor of pediatrics at Columbia University. Schick made important studies on scarlet fever, tuberculosis, and the nutrition for infants...but gained international renown for the Schick Test. This test determined susceptibility to diphtheria, and eventually led to the eradication of the childhood disease that attacked 100,000 Americans in 1927, leading to about 10,000 deaths.
A massive five-year campaign, coordinated by Dr. Schick, virtually eliminated the dreaded disease that had taken countless young lives since it was first mentioned in the sixth century writings of Aëtius Amidenus. As a part of the campaign, 85 million pieces of literature were distributed by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. with an appeal to parents to "Save your child from diphtheria." These illustrated brochures (reproduced here) were created by a talented young artist who had recently emigrated from Germany - Gerta Ries. Remarkably, this same Gerta Ries (Wiener) was commissioned over 75 years later to create the sculptured tribute to Dr. Béla Schick for the Jewish-American Hall of Fame. A residential building is named after him on the Stony Brook University campus.
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Member Finnish Pediatric Society American Hungarian Medical Society, Academy Medicine, American Pediatric Society, Academy of Pediatrics (a founder), Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Association Immunologists, National Institute for Social Sciences, Academy Science. Member Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinderhelkunde, Harvey Society, Association for Study of Allergy, Bronx Pediatric Society, Virchow Society, New York, Southwest California Pediatric Society, Pediatric Research Society, Mississippi Valley Society, Sociedad Boliviana de Pediatria. Member Gesellschaft der Aerzte in Vienna.
Quotes from others about the person
M. Murray Peshkin, his friend and allergist colleague, wrote of him: “Bela Schick taught me by example that when one takes care of a chil one is taking care humanity. As aperson, as a physician, as an investigator of medical unknowns he stands in his own right as one of the giants of medicine of all time.”
He married Catharine C. Fries on December 3, 1925.