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THE wider recognition of medical science as a rewarding object of endowment is a result of discoveries made during the last quarter of a century, and it is of interest to inquire why this increased knowledge should have borne such abundant fruit. The result is not due to any change in the ultimate aims of medicine, which have always been what they are to-day and will remain—the prevention and the cure of disease—nor to the application to the solution of medical problems of any higher intellectual ability and skill than were possessed by physicians of past generations, nor to the growth of the scientific spirit nor to the mere fact of a great scientific advance in medicine, for the most important contribution ever made to our understanding of the processes of disease was the iliscovery by Virchow in the middle of the last century of the principles and facts of cellular pathology, the foundation of modern pathology.
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The Scientific Study of Infectious Diseases 1 . Nature 75, 213–214 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/075213a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/075213a0