Rudolf Virchow
The 'father of modern pathology,' he emphasized that diseases arise from changes in cells, not humors.
Most quoted
"The cell is the ultimate morphological unit in which there is any manifestation of life, and we must not imagine that it is a mere aggregation of elementary particles."
— from Die Cellularpathologie in ihrer Begründung auf physiologische und pathologische Gewebelehre, 1858
"The improvement of medicine would eventually prolong human life, but improvement of social conditions could achieve this result more rapidly and more successfully."
"The characteristic feature of all infectious diseases is that they are caused by the transfer of a living agent from a diseased to a healthy individual."
All quotes by Rudolf Virchow (361)
The cell is the true anatomical element of all living things.
The cell is the ultimate element of all organic structures.
The cell is the true individual in the organic world.
The cell is the ultimate morphological unit of all organic beings.
The cell is the true anatomical element of all organic forms.
The cell is the ultimate element of all living organisms.
The cell is the true individual in the organic kingdom.
The cell is the ultimate morphological unit of all organic life.
The cell is the true anatomical element of all organic beings.
The cell is the ultimate element of all organic forms.
The cell is the ultimate morphological unit of all organic structures.
The cell is the true anatomical element of all organic life.
The cell is the ultimate element of all organic beings.
The cell is the ultimate morphological unit of all organic forms.
The cell is the true anatomical element of all organic structures.
The cell is the ultimate element of all organic life.
The physician is the natural attorney of the poor.
If medicine is to fulfill her great task, then she must enter the political and social life.
Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions.
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
Contemporaries of Rudolf Virchow
Other Medicines born within 50 years of Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902).