Rudolf Virchow

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ON the night of March 18, 1848, a young man burst into the office of Dr. Schleich, a physician of Berlin, asking:"Schleich, have you any weapons?" "Only this old gun and a rusty sabre." "Out with them! Off to the barricade!"1 Thus, Rudolf Virchow, twenty-seven years of age, rushed off to build barricades and to oppose, with only a pistol, the soldiers of a king. The short range of his weapon limited his effectiveness, since, as he regretfully wrote to his father, "The soldiers shot mostly from too great a distance..."Only three years later the young revolutionary postulated . . .
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