Dr. Henry Koplik, specialist in diseases of infancy and childhood and discoverer of the bacillus of whooping cough, died Saturday of heart disease. He was sixty-nine years old.
Dr. Koplik also discovered during his investigations an early diagnostic sign in measles, generally accepted by the medical profession, known as “Koplik’s spots.”
He was born in New York City Oct. 28,1858, son of Abraham S. and Rosalie H. Koplik. He was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1878 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in 1881.
Dr. Koplik founded the first milk depot in the United States for infants. He was attending physician at the Good Samaritan Dispensary, St. John’s Guild; consulting pediatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the Hospital for Deformities and Jewish Maternity Hospital.
He was an honorary member of the medical societies of Vienna and Budapest, a member of the Association of American Physicians the American Pediatric Society, the New York Academy of Medicine. He wrote “Diseases of Infancy and Childhood” and several monographs on the same subjects.
Lewis H. and Henry Koplik, jr. survive him. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 10 A.M. at his home.
Congregation Adath Yeshurun of Houston, the oldest Orthodox Congregation in Texas, is celebrating today its thirty-fifth anniversary with a banquet at the Hebrew Institute. Dr. Abraham Schechter is the rabbi at the congregation.
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