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Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

Rudolf Virchow

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
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
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Myself Opponent Politics Preference
Science in itself’ is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. ‘Science for its own sake’ usually means nothing more than science for the sake of the people who happen to be pursuing it.
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Existence People Pursue Science
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
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
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
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
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Open Question Science Spirituality
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
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
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
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

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