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Clemens von Pirquet, MD (1874-1929)
First, the patient, second the patient, third the patient, fourth the patient, fifth the patient, and then maybe comes science. We first do everything for the patient; science can wait, research can wait.
Bela Schick1
Only in the case of an unusual physician/medical scientist who concurrently meets the totality of patients' needs-medical, emotional, social-and focuses on scientific pursuits with equally undiverted
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Clemens von Pirquet and his work
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(1929)Aphorisms and facetiae of Bela Schick
(1965)Clemens von Pirquet: his life and work
(1968)Ein neuer Kandidat für die Bundespräsidentschaft.Der berühmte Kinderarzt Professor Klemens Pirquet
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(3 March 1929)- Quotation from Tennyson's “The charge of the Light...
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2010, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical SciencesCitation Excerpt :First, Pirquet is cited in official histories of allergy and immunology that chronicle the key figures and discoveries in this discipline. This category includes accounts found in immunological textbooks and manuals (for example, Klein, 1982; Golub, 1991), articles devoted to figures and milestones in medicine (for example, Bendiner, 1981; Dworetzky and Cohen, 2002; Rapaport, 1974; Wagner, 1963), as well as more extended accounts within the history and philosophy of science and medicine that deal with the trajectory of the discipline and its concepts (for example, Moulin, 1991; Silverstein, 1989; Tauber, 1994). Second, Pirquet can be found in more recent histories and studies of allergy that contextualise the phenomenon socially, culturally and politically, as well as scientifically (for example, Jackson, 2006; Mitman, 2007; Keirns, 2008).
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2002, Journal of Allergy and Clinical ImmunologyClemens von Pirquet: A remarkable life and career
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