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Since ancient times, religious practice was almost
inseparable from that of medicine. The healing minis-
trations of God were the domain of the priests and of
rabbi-physicians during our long talmudic period. And it
was written in Hebraic texts that "The skill of a physician
shall lift up his head, and he shall stand before nobles."
Through the ages, doctoring was a spiritual endowment
and profession of respect for Jews whose other vocational
opportunities were pitifully few. But with increased
freedom and improved fortunes, Jews in modern medical
research and teaching have turned a legacy into a life
saving and life enhancing gift for uncounted millions of
people throughout the world.
While it was in popular use, the famed 1906
blood-serum test that bore the bacteriologist's name was
the most advanced diagnostic weapon of the day against
the rampant scourge of syphilis. Born in Bamberg,
Germany, August von Wasserman had worked at the
Robert Koch Institute in Berlin from 1890 to 1913. Here,
and later at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute, he conducted
and published important experimental studies of blood
cells and proteins, as well as of chemotherapeutic
treatments. Reputed as one the founders of the science of
immunology, Wasserman also developed inoculations
against tetanus, typhoid and cholera, antitoxins against
diphtheria, and produced a diagnostic test for
tuberculosis.
Diphtheria was a dreaded disease of infancy,
made less so by the test he discovered that determined
susceptibility and the need for preventive vaccinations. •
A pediatrician by training, Bela Schick left his Hungarian
homeland for Vienna, Austria, where he practiced
medicine until his 1923 immigration to America. He had
earlier perfected the safe and accurate Schick Test which
revealed susceptibility if reddening developed at the skin
site injected with a drop of diphtheria toxin. The
energetic physician and professor was principally
associated with Columbia University and Mount Sinai
Hospital in New York City, and wrote copiously on
childhood diseases, infectious ailments, allergies and
nutrition.
Polish-born Samuel Levine settled in the U.S.
with his parents at age three and in twenty years
graduated with a medical degree from Harvard, with
which he affiliated for a lifetime. It was during those
years that the clinical professor of cardiology became the
first in his field to recognize and define coronary heart
disease, and clearly establish its diagnosis and treatment.
His early work in interpreting symptoms and prescribing
care appeared in Coronary Thrombosis (1929), a
landmark book educating the profession on managing our
nation's principal health threat. No single authority in
medicine has achieved more in saving and prolonging the
lives of cardiovascular disease victims--numbering many
tens of thousands every year, wherever in the world his
teachings have reached.
-- Saul Stadtmauer

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