Famine Fever
and some of the other
Cognate Forms of
Typhus
Rudolt Virchow
On Famine Fever
and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus
Rudolf Virchow
R. Virchow
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), professor of medicine and pathology at the Charité
Hospital in Berlin, published more than 2000 papers and dozens of books. His
investigation of the 1847-1848 typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia laid the foundations
of public health in Germany. During the Revolution of 1848, Virchow helped found a
journal promoting medicine as a social science. For physicians, his contributions to
the understanding of the pathophysiology of disease and to the working vocabulary of
medicine were fundamental, but Virchow also believed that social injustice and
political oppression lay at the heart of many illnesses and that "the physician is the
natural attorney of the poor."
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Famine Fever, Cognate Forms of Typhus
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