Virchow
Americannoun
noun
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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
Virchow documented hunger, illiteracy, poverty and depression among Silesians, and concluded that the root of the problem lay in their exploitation.
From Scientific American • May 13, 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
Virchow had been dead for a hundred years, and only one full-length biography of him existed, of which Farmer read every page.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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