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Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.

Rudolf Virchow

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Natural Poor Problem Social Solution
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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Death Manifestation Moments Operation Personal Sick Special
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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Chemical Expression Follow Law Life Ordinary Physical
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.
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Attack Consciousness Faith Limitation Object 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
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Best Insurance Writing
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
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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Faith Oneself Respect Science
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Law Superstition
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Body Citizenship State
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Belief Faith Science
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
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
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
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Doctor Goal Healing Position
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Avoid Children Marriage

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