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Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.

Rudolf Virchow

There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Faith Oneself Respect Science
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.
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Medical Privilege Standard Statistics Work
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Concern Knowledge Science Serve
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave Science
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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Curse Humanity Learning Situation Tolerance
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.
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Curse Destroy Event Humanity Learning Shame Tolerance
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Best Insurance Writing
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Body Citizenship State
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
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Community Education Existence Live Medical Way
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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Consciousness Know Limitation Science
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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Belief Place Reach Science Stop
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Medicine Scale Social Science
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Animal Division Human Medicine
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Doctor Goal Healing Position

Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.

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Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.

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