Virchow
Americannoun
noun
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Rudolf Virchow, a 19th-century Prussian pathologist, considered organisms a kind of “cellular democracy,” a harmonious republic of cooperating cells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Rudolf Virchow later made important contributions to this theory.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Dr. Virchow wrote that “mass disease means that society is out of joint.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
A Prussian doctor, Rudolf Virchow, described the social determinants of health long before the phrase was coined.
From Scientific American ● May 13, 2021
Virchow made significant discoveries in oncology—the treatment of tumors—and parasitology, the scientific study of parasites.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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