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Health officials made valiant efforts to play down the threat of infection. "The absolute risk for the general population is extremely low," insisted Dr. Robert Zimmermann, head of the blood bank at Berlin's Rudolf Virchow Clinic. Dr. Elke Gossrau of the German Red Cross put the risk at about 1 in 1 million...
Historically, medicine did not emerge from its Gaelenie traditions and practices until the mid-nineteenth century with the first "revolution in biology," the recognition that the cell is the fundamental unit of most living things. This fundamental insight was incorporated into medicine by Virchow. Bernard and other Europeans, and became the scientific basis of medicine for the next hundred years. In fact, even today the concepts developed between 1850 and the mid 1920s still form the chief scientific base of medicine...
...Sacco-Vanzetti trial, where the new instruments demonstrated irrefutably that a bullet from the gun Nicola Sacco was carrying had killed the payroll guard, ∙ FORENSIC MEDICINE, a science that had languished since the Renaissance, came on with a rush in the 19th century when Germany's Rudolf Virchow and his followers began to study human tissue under the microscope. For most of the century, the profession was widely regarded as legalized ghouling, but in 1889 a French pathologist named Alexandre Lacassagne cracked the celebrated case of the Millery Corpse-a grisly mess of rotting flesh and jumbled bones...
Physically, James "took the cure" at the baths of Teplitz. Academically, he obtained it in Dresden, Berlin, and Heidelberg where he studied under Du Bois, Reymond, Virchow, and Helmholtz. And for his spiritual malaise he subsituted at moments what he called "a sort of inward serenity and joy in living, derived from reading Goethe and Schiller...
Hope for Control? For almost a century after Berlin's Dr. Rudolf Virchow named leukemia ("white blood") and de scribed it as a proliferation of the white cells, little more was learned about it. Most researchers have tried to find out where the white cells come from, and why. Dr. Bierman thinks this is only one part of the picture, and probably not the most important, because in some forms of leukemia, it is now known, there is no excess of white cells...