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 was only a few years out of medical school, but his report became the foundational document of the new discipline of social medicine.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2021
At Virchow hospital in Berlin, doctors not only stopped shaking hands with their patients - even non-contagious ones - but are actively encouraging them to follow the example as cases in Germany hit 66.
From Washington Times • Mar. 1, 2020
Of particular interest to a brainy, idealistic youth such as Farmer, Virchow helped define the field of medical anthropology—the study of human health and disease and public health care systems.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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