HLTH 385W Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Carl Von Rokitansky, Rudolf Virchow, Robert Froriep
21 Jul 2018
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The rise of the german school of medicine in the 19th century. German school of medicine in the mid 19th century. With the opening of the university of vienna hospital, the largest in the world at the time, many physicians and students went there to study. Unlike paris where clinicians cared for patients and did their autopsy when they died, the german schools developed a new discipline, pathology. Led by carl von rokitansky who is said to have supervised 70,000 autopsies. In 1837, matthias schleiden found that all plants are composed of cells. He communicated this finding to theodor schwann who found cells in the tissues of all animals he examined, developing cell theory: All living things composed of cells and their products. New cells are created by old cells dividing into two. Cells are the basic building blocks of life. Born in 1821, went to berlin to study medicine.
