As far as we know, he didn’t suffer from allergies. Nor, as a doctor, did he treat anyone for allergies. As a researcher, he didn’t focus on allergies. Yet Clemens von Pirquet made a huge contribution to the study of allergies: he coined the word.
A noted Austrian pediatrician at the turn of the last century, von Pirquet was treating diphtheria patients with a horse serum antitoxin and...
What We Can Do For You Allergy and asthma diagnosis and treatment are what we do ...all day, every day. We're proud of the fact that we are really good at it. We should be. It requires at least nine years of intense postgraduate study to become an allergist/immunologist. You don't just "get over" allergies, and just taking a pill won't give you the best results. You need to find out what's...