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If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

Rudolf Virchow

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
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
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
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Myself Opponent Politics Preference
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
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
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Best Insurance Writing
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
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
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
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
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Avoid Children Marriage
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave Science

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