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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

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

Faith Oneself Respect Science
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Natural Poor Problem Social Solution
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Existence People Pursue 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.
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Law Superstition
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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Curse Humanity Learning Situation Tolerance
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Belief Faith Science
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Attack Consciousness Faith Limitation Object Science
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
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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Belief Place Reach Science Stop
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Animal Division Human Medicine
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
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Myself Opponent Politics Preference
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Body Citizenship State
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Chemical Expression Follow Law Life Ordinary Physical
Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Doctor Goal Healing Position

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