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Dr. Bela Schick Gets Award of Medical Society

The gold medal of the Phi Lambda Kappa fraternity, national medical society, for “conspicuous achievement in the medical sciences” has been awarded to Dr. Bela Schick, pediatrician at the Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Schick is the author of the test for susceptibility in diphtheria diagnosis which bears his name. The award is the fourth in […]

June 5, 1933
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The gold medal of the Phi Lambda Kappa fraternity, national medical society, for “conspicuous achievement in the medical sciences” has been awarded to Dr. Bela Schick, pediatrician at the Mount Sinai Hospital.

Dr. Schick is the author of the test for susceptibility in diphtheria diagnosis which bears his name.

The award is the fourth in the history of the Society, the previous recipients being Dr. Jay F. Schamberg, Director of the Dermatological Research Institute of Philadelphia; Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, professor-emeritus at the College of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Julius Friedenwald of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

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