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Rudolf Virchow
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“For 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.”
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1849 (quoted in Pathologies of Power, by Paul Farmer, page 323).
“Medical 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.”
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) first seen 1848 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1848 (quoted in Infections and Inequalities by Paul Farmer, page 1.
“Omnis cellula e cellula”
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) first seen 1850 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted as early as 1850
“Liebt man sich wirklich, so ist es ja nicht schwer, die Toleranz zu üben, denn die Toleranz ist die Tochter der Liebe -- es ist die eigentlich christliche Eigenschaft, die freilich von der heutigen Christenwelt nicht geübt wird.”
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) first seen 1839 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in a letter to his father dated 7 April 1851, published in Briefe an seite Eltern, 1839 bis 1864 (1907).
“Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line—nor should there be.”
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1856 (Quoted in: Klauder JV: Interrelations of human and veterinary medicine. N Engl J Med 1958, 258:170-177).
“Cellular 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.”
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: attributed to Rudolph Virchow Coper, H., Herken, H., 1963. Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. 88,2025– 2036. cited by 1. Gelman BB, Soukup VM, Schuenke KW, Keherly MJ, Holzer C, Richey FJ, et al. Acquired neuronal channelopathies …
“The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.”
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1849 (R. Virchow. Der Mensch (On Man). Berlin, 1849. English translation in: L. J. Rather, Disease, Life and Man -- Selected Essays of Rudolf Virchow, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, pp. 67–70, 1958).
“The future is with the vegetarians.”
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) first seen 1700 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century: Narratives of Consumption, 1700-1900, edited by Tamara S. Wagner and Narin Hassan (Lexington Books, 2007), p. 19.
“Mass disease means society is out of joint.”
Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) first seen 1848 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1848 Report on the typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia. Quoted in: Rudolf Virchow: Collected Essays on Public Health and Epidemiology, edited by Rather LJ. Vol 1. Canton, Mass: Science History Publications; 1985:311