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Rudolf Virchow

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Myself Opponent Politics Preference
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

Death Manifestation Moments Operation Personal Sick Special
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Belief Faith Science
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Beginning Belief End Leave Science
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Belief Place Reach Science Stop
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Curse Humanity Learning Situation Tolerance
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

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

Faith Oneself Respect Science
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Consciousness Know Limitation Science
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Law Superstition
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Animal Division Human Medicine
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Community Education Existence Live Medical Way
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Doctor Goal Healing Position
As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Open Question Science Spirituality
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Medical Privilege Standard Statistics Work
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Body Citizenship State

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