Nature Immunology
1, 453 - 455 (2000)
doi:10.1038/82691
Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet: Explaining immune complex disease in 1906Arthur M. Silverstein
Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1900 East Monument St., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
arts@jhmi.edu
What only one person accomplish in a lifetime? Pirquet, an exceedingly curious pediatrician with acute powers of observation and deduction, not only solved the riddle of serum sickness and developed the concept of allergy, but also made contributions to the study of nutrition and aging.
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