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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

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
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Avoid Children Marriage
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Myself Opponent Politics Preference
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
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
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
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave 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
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
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Doctor Medicine People Popular Training Wisdom
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
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Natural Poor Problem Social Solution
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
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
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Best Insurance Writing
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

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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