Virchow and Pasteur

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Rudolf Virchow

Virchow was one of the 19th century’s foremost leaders in medicine and pathology. He was also a public health activist, social reformer, politician, and anthropologist. Virchow was the only child of a farmer and city treasurer in Schivelbein, Germany. He had a strong interest in natural science. In 1839, he received a scholarship from the Prussian Military Academy, where he was given the opport...

Louis Pasteur

detail, a valuable contribution and a positive demonstration of his "philology and erudition". The images receive, by comparison, cursory treatment. It is only after repeated perusals that the reader grasps how simple the material really is, basically three male-female pairs dateable to 1539 and their derivatives: the De Negker-Vogtherr set from Strasbourg; the Sabio set from Venice; and the Go...

Virchow Revisited: Emerging Zoonoses

T he German physician Rudolf Virchow (1821–1905) was studying Trichinella in 1855 when he coined the term “zoonosis.” His work on this disease helped to convince him of the importance of linking human and veterinary medicine, something he emphasized throughout his career. Although Virchow is more widely heralded for his cell theory of disease, perhaps his concept of one medicine will become his...

Virchow ne meurt jamais

Les exostoses représentent la forme la plus fréquente des tumeurs osseuses bénignes, elles peuvent être uniques ou multiples se formant au niveau des métaphyses des os longs avec une prédilection pour le fémur et l'humérus. Elles sont le plus souvent asymptomatiques mais peuvent parfois être révélées par une complication osseuse ou à l'occasion de la compression de tissus mous de voisinage. Les...