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The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

Rudolf Virchow

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
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Avoid Children Marriage
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
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Best Insurance Writing
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Body Citizenship State
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
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
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
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
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Animal Division Human Medicine
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
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
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave Science
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
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
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
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

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