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

Rudolf Virchow

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Best Insurance Writing
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
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
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 cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Belief Faith Science
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
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
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
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
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
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
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 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
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Animal Division Human Medicine

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