Early hospital and laboratory work
Dochez received his medical degree at Johns Hopkins in 1907 and joined Rockefeller in 1908. After its hospital opened in 1910, he worked as an assistant resident and bacteriologist on pneumonia and other diseases.
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Collaborations with Cole and Avery
Dochez and Cole prepared type-specific pneumococcal antiserum and developed ways to identify the type infecting a patient. He also worked closely with Avery, turning differences observed in clinical material into questions that could be investigated experimentally.
The Columbia years
After the First World War he returned briefly to Johns Hopkins before moving to Columbia’s medical school in 1921, where he remained until retirement in 1949. His research addressed the relationship between streptococcal pharyngitis and scarlet fever, as well as the cause of the common cold.
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