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Rudolf Virchow Quotes (1821-1902)
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About Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow (October 13, 1821 β September 5, 1902) was a German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician.
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βOmnis cellula e cellulaβ
βThe task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.β
βMedical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.β
βFor if medicine is really to accomplish its great task, it must intervene in political and social life. It must point out the hindrances that impede the normal social functioning of vital processes, and effect their removal.β
βCellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.β
βLiebt man sich wirklich, so ist es ja nicht schwer, die Toleranz zu ΓΌben, denn die Toleranz ist die Tochter der Liebe -- es ist die eigentlich christliche Eigenschaft, die freilich von der heutigen Christenwelt nicht geΓΌbt wird.β
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Rudolf Virchow on Superstition
βLaws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.β
Rudolf Virchow on Experiment
βThe scientific question is the logical hypothesis which from a known law further proceeds by analogy and induction, the answer gives the experiment, which is prescribed in the question itself.β
Rudolf Virchow on Chemistry
βCellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.β
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David S. Strayer on Rudolf Virchow
βPathology is the study of structural and functional abnormalities that are expressed as diseases of organs and systems. Classic theories attributed disease to imbalances or noxious effects of humors on specific organs. In the 19th century, Rudolf Virchow, often referred to as the father of modern pathology, proposed that injury to the smallest living unit of the body, the cell, is the basis of all disease. To this day, clinical and experimental pathology remain rooted in this concept.β
About Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow (October 13, 1821 β September 5, 1902) was a German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician.