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How many lectures formed the basis of Rudolf Virchow’s book Cellular Pathology?
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Rudolf Virchow
German pathologist and statesman Rudolf Virchow was one of the most prominent physicians of the 19th century.
Rudolf Virchow’s influential book, Cellular Pathology as Based upon Physiological and Pathological Histology (Die Cellularpathologie in ihrer Begründung auf physiologische und pathologische Gewebenlehre), was based on a series of 20 lectures delivered in 1858.1