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What disease did Rudolf Virchow describe in an influential paper published in 1845?
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Rudolf Virchow
German pathologist and statesman Rudolf Virchow was one of the most prominent physicians of the 19th century.
In an influential paper published in 1845, Rudolf Virchow described one of the two earliest reported cases of leukemia.2