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As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

Rudolf Virchow

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 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
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
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
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Body Citizenship State
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Avoid Children Marriage
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave Science
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
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
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 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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Body Citizenship Force State
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
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Myself Opponent Politics Preference
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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Concern Knowledge Science Serve
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

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

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