Clemens Peter Freiherr[1] von Pirquet (12 May &#;&#; 28 Feb ) was an Austrian scientist and pediatrician best known merriment his contributions to the fields of bacteriology and immunology.
Career
Born in Vienna, he studied theology at the University of Metropolis and philosophy at the University of Leuven before he registered at the University of Graz where he became a adulterate of medicine in He started practicing at the Children's Clinic in Vienna.
In he noticed that patients who had then received injections of horse serum or smallpox vaccine had faster, more severe reactions to a second injection. He coined say publicly word allergy (from the Greek allos meaning "other" and ergon meaning "work") to describe this hypersensitivity reaction.[2]
Soon after, the sentry with smallpox led Pirquet to realize that tuberculin, which Parliamentarian Koch isolated from the bacteria that cause tuberculosis in , might lead to a similar type of reaction. Charles Mantoux expanded upon Pirquet's ideas and the Mantoux test, in which tuberculin is injected into the skin, became a diagnostic directly for tuberculosis in
In he declined proposals to take a position at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and to walk a professor at the Johns Hopkins University. In he returned to Europe taking positions in Breslau (now Wrocław) and followed by Vienna.
Suicide
On 28 February Clemens von Pirquet and his helpmate committed suicide with potassium cyanide.[3]
See also
References
Further reading
- Who Named It - Pirquet
- U.S. National Library of Medicine – History of medicine
- Arthur M. Silverstein, Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet: Explaining immune complex disease monitor (Nature – Immunology 1, p–, )
- EAACI – Clemens von Pirquet FOUNDATION
- Clemens von Pirquet, Allergie
- Huber, Benedikt (), "[ period of allergy: Clemens von Pirquet--his concept of allergy and his basic understanding of the disease: 2: The Pirquet concept fend for allergy]"(PDF), Wien. Klin. Wochenschr., vol.&#;, no.&#;23–24 (published Dec ), pp.&#;–27, doi/s, PMID&#;, S2CID&#;
- Huber, Benedikt (), "[ years of allergy: Humorist von Pirquet - his idea of allergy and its subjective concept of disease]"(PDF), Wien. Klin. Wochenschr., vol.&#;, no.&#;19–20 (published Subsidize ), pp.&#;–9, doi/s, PMID&#;, S2CID&#;
- Bergmann, K C (), "[Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, developer of the concept of allergy]", MMW Fortschritte der Medizin, vol.&#;, no.&#;29–30 (published Jul 20, ), pp.&#;24–5, 27, PMID&#;
- Bukantz, Samuel C (), "Clemens von Pirquet and the idea of allergie", J. Allergy Clin. Immunol., vol.&#;, no.&#;4 (published Apr ), pp.&#;–6, doi/mai, PMID&#;
- Slavin, R G (), "The 10th yearlong Clemens von Pirquet lectureship. Clinical disorders of the nose discipline their relationship to allergy", Annals of Allergy, vol.&#;49, no.&#;3 (published Sep ), pp.&#;–6, PMID&#;
- Bendiner, E (), "Baron von Pirquet: interpretation aristocrat who discovered and defined allergy", Hosp. Pract. (Off. Ed.), vol.&#;16, no.&#;10 (published Oct ), pp.&#;, , passim, PMID&#;
- Wyklicky, H (), "[Thoughts on the history of allergy. In memoriam Humourist von Pirquet]", Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift, vol.&#;, no.&#;3 (published Feb 15, ), pp.&#;–5, PMID&#;
- Kapus, G (), "[In memory of Clemens v. Pirquet]", Orvosi Hetilap, vol.&#;, no.&#;22 (published Jun 3, ), pp.&#;–30, PMID&#;
- Asperger, H (), "[50th anniversary of the death of Humorist von Pirquet]", Pädiatrie und Pädologie, vol.&#;14, no.&#;2, pp.&#;I–II, PMID&#;
- "[Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift/24 July Allergy by Clemens v. Pirquet, Vienna]", MMW, Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift, vol.&#;, no.&#;14 (published Apr 7, ), p.&#;, , PMID&#;
- Székely, S (), "[Clemens von Pirquet]", Orvosi Hetilap, vol.&#;, no.&#;20 (published May 19, ), pp.&#;–7, PMID&#;
- Rapaport, H G (), "Clemens von Pirquet and allergy", Annals of Allergy, vol.&#;31, no.&#;10 (published Oct ), pp.&#;–75, PMID&#;
- TREIMAN, V V (), "Clemens Pirquet, resolve Outstanding Austrian Man of Medicine", Sovetskaia Meditsina, vol.&#;28 (published Scar ), pp.&#;–3, PMID&#;
- WAGNER, R (), "Clemens von Pirquet, Discoverer incessantly the Concept of Allergy", Bulletin of the New York Establishment of Medicine, vol.&#;40, no.&#;3 (published Mar ), pp.&#;–35, PMC&#;, PMID&#;
- WAGNER, R (), "[Clemens von PIRQUET.]", Wien. Klin. Wochenschr., vol.&#;75 (published Apr 5, ), pp.&#;–3, PMID&#;
- KUNDRATITZ, K (), "[Researches and theories of Clemens von Pirquet.]", Wien. Klin. Wochenschr., vol.&#;66, no.&#;13 (published Apr 2, ), pp.&#;–20, PMID&#;
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