“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.”
Quote by Rudolf Virchow
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Rudolf Virchow
German physician and one of the founders of cellular pathology, known as one of the greatest scientists in the history of medicine. He proposed the basic principles of cellular pathology, which had a profound impact on the development of modern medicine. more
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