Language:
English
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
IMAJ
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,5 (2011) 261-265
Keywords:
Penson, Jakub
;
Fleck, Ludwik,
;
Jewish ghettos
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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World War, 1939-1945 Medical care
;
Human experimentation in medicine
Abstract:
Relates the story of two Jewish doctors who, in the inhuman conditions of World War II ghettos, succeeded to battle typhus and made medical discoveries. Dr. Jakub Penson (1899-1970), while a prisoner in the Warsaw ghetto, discovered and studied kidney failure in typhus; later Penson fled from the ghetto and survived in a village. Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961) in the ghetto of Lvov, in collaboration with other inmate doctors, obtained a partially protective anti-typhus vaccine, and was the first to apply the urine antigen test in clinical practice; he survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
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