PROFESSOR VIRCHOW.

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...

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...

Rudolf Virchow; Doctor, Statesman, Anthropologist

This report, including an abundance of tables, describes in detail various experiments designed to throw light on problems encountered in the Japanese program of producing BCG vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis. Studies were made of production of dried vaccine, of methods of preservation, of virulence, and of potency in guinea pigs. Discussion follows the description of each experime...

Virchow Testimonial Fund