SCIALOM, DAVID DARIO

SCIALOM, DAVID DARIO (1880–1966), physician in tunis . Scialom was a specialist in tropical diseases and was the personal medical attendant of the bey of Tunis and his court. A man of extraordinary simplicity, he was first and foremost the physician of the lower classes, being called "the ghetto doctor." He published articles on physical characteristics of the Tunisian population (1906); on the 1911 cholera epidemic in Tunisia; on influenza and tuberculosis among Tunisian Jews (1920, 1921); and on Mediterranean fever. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. Vehel, in: L'Union Marocaine, 4 (July 25, 1935). (Robert Attal)