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
In the mid-1880s, German pathologist Rudolf Virchow recognized inflammatory cells in atherosclerotic plaques.
From Scientific American • Dec. 1, 2021
Dr. Virchow wrote that “mass disease means that society is out of joint.”
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
As he resumed his studies, Farmer discovered the work of a little-known German physician, biologist, philosopher, anthropologist, and politician—a polymath—named Rudolf Virchow.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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