Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
RUDOLF VIRCHOWAs long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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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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Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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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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As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
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The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.
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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.
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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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The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
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Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.
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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
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