Cellular pathology : as based upon physiological and pathological histology; twenty lectures delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin during the months of February, March, and April, 1858 / by Rudolf Virchow; translated from the second edition of the original by Frank Chance; with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author.

  • Virchow, Rudolf, 1821-1902.
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MDCCCLX. [1860]
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Credit: Cellular pathology : as based upon physiological and pathological histology; twenty lectures delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin during the months of February, March, and April, 1858 / by Rudolf Virchow; translated from the second edition of the original by Frank Chance; with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the iiiiclerstancling of all, what, without it, efforts prolonged for years would be able to render intelligible at most only to a few. As examples I will cite the terms, parenchymatous in- flammation, thrombosis and embolia, leulijemia and ichor- rhsemia, osteoid and mucous tissue, cheesy and amyloid meta- morphosis, and substitution of tissues. New names cannot be avoided, where actual additions to experimental (empirical) knowledge are being treated of. On the other hand, I have already often been reproached with endeavouring to rehabilitate antiquated views in modern science. In respect to this I can, 1 think, say with a safe con- science that I am just as little inclined to restore Galen and Paracelsus to the position they formerly held, as I am afraid openly to acknowledge whatever truth there is in their views and observations. In fact, I find not only that the physicians of antiquity and the middle ages had not in all cases their senses shackled by traditional prejudices, but more than this, that among the people common sense has clung to certain truths, . notwithstanding the criticism of the learned had pronounced them overthrown. What should hinder me from avowing that the criticism of the learned has not always proved correct, that system has not always been nature, and that a false interpre- tation does not impair the correctness of the fact? Why should I not retain good expressions, or restore them, even though false ideas have been attached to them? My expe- rience constrains me to regard the term fluxion (active con- gestion—Wallung) ^ as preferable to that of congestion; I cannot help allowing inflammation to be a definite form in wliich pathological processes display themselves, although I am unable to admit its claims to be regarded as an entity; and I must needs, in spite of the decided counter-statements of many investigators, maintain tubercle to be a miliary granule, and * See the Author’s * Haudbuch der speciellcn Path, und Therapic,’ Vol. I, p, 141.