KUDOLPH VIROHOW, 1S21-1!K)2. 043 



brino- to ln"> studies a ripe uiidorstandino- and a critical discrimination. 

 Far better grounded in tHe older tongues, especially the Latin, than 

 our modern students, Rudolph Virchow retained through life secure 

 mastery of them, and in his later years he exhi))ited a keen sensitive- 

 ness to the barbarisms of which the present scientitic generation is not 

 guiltless. In tiie year 1S8H he gave an earnest exhoi'tation to his fel- 

 low-workers and the readers of hispcn-iodical" in regard to this matter, 

 and still later he again uttered a word in favor of a good tf^rminology.^ 



At Easter tiiue, 1S81), at the age of IT years and »i months, Kudolph 

 Virchow passed first among eight students at the examination, and in 

 the autumn entered as a student of medicine at the Koniglich medizi- 

 nisch-chirurgische Friedrich Wilhelurs Institut at Berlin. (This was 

 the so-called Pepiniere, now Kaiser Wilhehu's Academic fiir das mili- 

 tarjirztliche Bildvmgswesen.) He went through the regular course of 

 the •' Eleven," ])ut found time for })rivate research. It is an interest- 

 ing iHustration of his habit of mind that the future militar}" surgeon 

 heard the lectures of Friedrich Riickert's colleague upon Arabic poetry. 



April 1, 1843, he was appointed "'Charite-Chirurgus," which cor- 

 responds with the present position of assistant physician. He (Mitered 

 immediately into practical work which l)rought u}) a host of sugges- 

 tions calculated to develop the germinating ideas of his student da3's. 

 He felt that he nuist still learn, and that a thorough scientitic education 

 was a necessity for him, and was, therefore, not content mertdy to 

 follow on with his comrades, but chose for himself his own course. 



The one who exercised the most intlucnce upon the student was 

 Johannes Midler, the many-sided master, preeminent in each of the 

 several lines of work which he undertook. He early l>ecame Vir- 

 chow's ideal, and so he remained. In the masterly memorial address 

 which he delivered'' after the untimely death of Midler, July 24, 

 1858, Virchow gave fitting utterance of the deep feelings of gratitude 

 which he ever cherished toward the master. Appreciating ol)jectively 

 the extent of Midler's talents and achievements, he raised for him an 

 undying memorial. Eminent as an anatomist, zoologist, and physiolo- 

 gist, Midler was not less eminent in pathology; but the pupil wlio was 

 to carry forward his work to unimagined furthcn* development crowns 

 him who had destroyed the false philosophy of Schelling witii ''the 

 laurel of th(> tvxw natural philosopher of the real liesh and ])lood."' He 

 sketched with firm hand Miillers development from almost mystical 

 tendencies to the true spirit of exact scientitic research, and attri))uted 

 to ''Nature and doethe'' a powerful intluence on Midler's intellectual 



« Barbarisms in medical language. Archiv f. pathoiogische Anatomie u. Physi- 

 ologie 11. f. klinische Medizin, vol. 91, pp. 1-11. 



''New names and new ideas in jmtlidlogy. licr-liiicr klinische W'ochenscln'il'l, 

 1900, No. ] . 



'■Johannes MidU;r. Eine Gediichtnisfcdc. ]>crlin, 1858, 



