#Austrian #physician who originated a #skintest for #tuberculosis that bears his name, a classic…
#Austrian #physician who originated a #skintest for #tuberculosis that bears his name, a classic #diagnostic #test in which #tuberculin is applied to a superficial #abrasion of the #skin of the arm. In 1906 he noticed that #patients who had received injections of #horseserum or #smallpox #vaccine usually had quicker, more severe #reactions to second injections. While studying the symptoms of #cowpox #vaccination, he also developed a new theory about the #incubation time of #infectious #diseases and the formation of #antibodies. In 1909 he published the results of a series of tuberculin tests of inhabitants of Vienna that showed that 70% of the #children tested had been infected by tuberculosis by age 10, and over 90% at age 14. He also studied #infant #nutrition. www.masterdoctorclinic.com
