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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 published his seminal work, Die Cellularpathologie in ihrer BegrĂŒndung auf physiologische und pathologische Gewebenlehre (Cellular Pathology as Based upon Physiological and Pathological Histology), in 1858.1
This publication was based on a series of 20 lectures he delivered that same year, which established his theory that diseases originate in individual cells rather than in organs or tissues as a whole.21