Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Rudolf Virchow
Born: October 13, 1821
Died: September 5, 1902 (aged 80)
Bio: Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow was a German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician.
Known for:
- Post-mortem examinations (1885)
- Thrombosis and Emboli (1846-1856)
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