Emil Pfeiffer
Physician, Deceased Person
1846 – 1921
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Who was Emil Pfeiffer?
Emil Pfeiffer was a German physician and paediatrician.
He studied medicine at the universities of Bonn, Würzburg, and Berlin. It was at Berlin where he received his doctorate in 1869.
As a paediatrician he dealt with issues of infant nutrition, campaigned for the establishment of children's homes and crèches. He is known for describing infectious mononucleosis, an Epstein-Barr virus-induced infectious disease of the lymphatic tissue that also bears his name - Pfeiffer's disease.
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