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"one of the most
important works in the history of medicine and First edition in English of Rudolf Virchow's Cellular Pathology |
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"All cells come from
other cells... Where a cell originates it must have been preceded by
another cell, just as animals are produced only by other animals and
plants by other plants."
-Rudolf Virchow |
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VIRCHOW, Rudolf. Cellular Pathology as Based upon
Physiological and Pathological Histology. London: John Churchill,
1860. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter calf rebacked, marbled boards.
$1200. "Virchow made cellular pathology into a system of overwhelming importance. His main statement of the theory was given in a series of 20 lectures in 1858. The lectures, published in 1858 as his book Die Cellularpathologie in ihrer Begründung auf physiologische und pathologische Gewebenlehre (Cellular Pathology as Based upon Physiological and Pathological Histology), at once transformed scientific thought in the whole field of biology" (Britannica). Virchow's theory that the changes in cells account for diseases in organs revolutionized the field of medicine, leading to a profound growth in the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for diseases. Printing and the Mind of Man 307c. Garrison-Morton 2299; (both for the original German first edition). Two institutional stamps (partially removed) on title page, otherwise fine in handsome binding. |