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          Pirquet, an exceedingly curious pediatrician with acute powers of observation and deduction, not only solved the riddle of serum sickness and developed the..

          Clemens von Pirquet

          Clemens Peter Freiherr[1] von Pirquet (12 May 1874 – 28 February 1929) was an Austrian scientist and pediatrician best known for his contributions to the fields of bacteriology and immunology.

          Clemens Freiherr (Baron) von Pirquet (May 12, to February 28, ) first studied theology and philosophy for a short period, from onward followed by.

        1. Guido von Pirquet, an Austrian rocket pioneer, was born Mar. 30, , in the family castle in Hirschstetten, near Vienna, inheriting the title of Baron.
        2. Pirquet, an exceedingly curious pediatrician with acute powers of observation and deduction, not only solved the riddle of serum sickness and developed the.
        3. Guido von Pirquet was born on March 30, , at Hirschstetten castle, the.
        4. The term 'allergy' was coined by Austrian paediatrician, Clemens von Pirquet, to mean 'altered energy' or 'altered biological reactivity' (Jackson, , p.

          5. Career

          Born in Vienna, he studied theology at the University of Innsbruck and philosophy at the University of Leuven before he enrolled at the University of Graz where he became a doctor of medicine in 1900.

          He started practicing at the Children's Clinic in Vienna.

          In 1906 he noticed that patients who had previously received injections of horse serum or smallpox vaccine had quicker, more severe reactions to a second injection.

          He coined the word allergy (from the Greek allos meaning "other" and ergon meaning "work") to describe this hypersensitivity reaction.[2]

          Soon after, the observation with smallpox led Pirquet to realize that tuberculin, which Robert Koch isolated from the bacteria that cause tuberculosis in 1890, m