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The day of the last hypothesis would be also the day of the last observation... An hypothesis displaced by new facts dies an honorable death. If it has itself summoned to its trial the facts by which it is annihilated, it deserves even a monument of gratitude.

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle

I have shown first in the course of this investigation that the infective matter is independently animate, and further that one could think of the independently animate matter as either animal and plant organisms or elementary parts of animals, which have achieved a relative individuality.

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle

I know of no better food for the imagination than the beautiful formation of the human body, constructed of individual bones and muscles, which I know so well and can assemble accurately.

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle

Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle

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Born: July 9, 1809

Died: May 13, 1885 (aged 75)

Bio: Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle was a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument for the germ theory of disease.

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