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INDEX
People
Abravanel,
Don Isaac
Berg, Gertude (Molly Goldberg)
Berg, Moe
Berle, Milton
Berlin, Irving
Bernstein, Leonard
Brandeis, Louis D.
Cardozo, Benjamin
Einstein, Albert Elion, Gertrude
Frankel,Jacob
Gershwin, George
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Gompers, Samuel
Goode, Alexander Goodman, Benny
Gratz, Rebecca
Greenberg, Hank
Hillman, Sidney
Hoffman, Jeffrey
Houdini, Harry
Jefferson, Thomas
Karpeles,
Leopold Lamarr, Hedy
Lazarus, Emma
Lehman, Herbert H.
Levy, Asser
Levy, Uriah P.
Magnes, Judah L.
Meir, Golda
Miller, Arthur
Myerson, Bess
Noah, Mordecai.
Ochs, Adolph
Pulitzer, Joseph
Resnik, Judith
Rose, Ernestine
Rosenthal, Robert
Ross, Barney
Salk, Jonas
Salomon, Haym
Santangel, Luis de
Sarnoff, David
Schick, Bela
Seixas, Gershom M.
Singer, Isaac B.
Stern, Isaac
Straus, Isidor & Ida
Strauss, Levi
Streisand, Barbra
Szold, Henrietta
Torres, Dara
Torres, Luis de
Touro, Judah
Wacks, Mel
Wald, Lillian
Washington, George
Wiesel, Elie
Wise, Isaac Mayer Zacuto, Abraham
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Medal
by Gerta Ries Wiener (1990), Bela Schick, Developed Schick
Test for Diphtheria. |
Béla Schick (1877-1967)
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.
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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 Aetius.
As a part of the campaign, 85 million pieces of literature were
distributed by Metropolitan Life Co. 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.
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