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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

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Avoid Children Marriage
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Best Insurance Writing
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
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Curse Destroy Event Humanity Learning Shame Tolerance
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Body Citizenship Force State
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Curse Humanity Learning Situation Tolerance
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Medical Privilege Standard Statistics Work
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Body Citizenship State
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Belief Faith Science
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
Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Animal Division Human Medicine
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Law Superstition
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Myself Opponent Politics Preference
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.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

Concern Knowledge Science Serve
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
RUDOLF VIRCHOW

New Oneself Prison Replacement

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