6-46 RUDOLPH VIRCHOW, 1821-1902. 



the charity hospital was rewarded in 18-t5 by the great success of his 

 investigation on ""white blood."" Continued studies led him to the 

 description of a hitherto unknown form of disease to which he later 

 gave the name of Leucocytha^mia. Meanwhile Virchow had already 

 become lecturer on pathologic anatomy, and had given practical courses 

 on the cadaver, in which he developed the technique of dissection, and 

 which later fonued the basis of the Prussian "Regulations for the 

 practice of medical jurisprudence in examinations of the human cada- 

 ver." Other countries framed regulations modeled after these, so that 

 the practices here promulgated have become to considerable degree 

 the standards for the whole world. 



Virchow early became the center of a circle of congenial friends, of 

 whom the more prominent were Ludwig Frankc, the great clinical 

 physician of that day, Kudolf Leubuschei', and especially Benno 

 Keinhardt. The latter was of a resei'v^ed, quiet, studious nature, but 

 still capable of being stirred to passionate outbreaks in the warmth of 

 scientific enthusiasm, and stood with Virchow in the eager search for 

 truth and in revolt against the authoritative beliefs and the artificial 

 systems which then prevailed in the medical science.''' From this 

 friendl}^ alliance grew up that powerful instrument in the warfare for 

 the new experimental science of medicine, the "Archiv fiir pathologic 

 Anatomic und Ph3'siologie und fur klinische Medizin." "Had it not 

 been for Miillers Archiv," writes Virchow later, "we should scarcely 

 yet have known in Germany how a scientific journal should be con- 

 ducted. "*" But Miiller's journal occupied another field, being chiefly 

 concerned with normal anatoni}- and physiology, so that pathology 

 found only occasional place in it. The "Archiv fiir physiologische 

 Heilkunde," published in south Germany, as well as the "Zeitschrift 

 fiir rationelle Medizin," were so one-sided in their editing that the 

 friends were refused a place in these columns and found themselves 

 ol)liged to found a journal of their own. Virchow recalled with grat- 

 itude how in these circumstances the publisher, George Kcimer, came 

 their aid; who, as he says, "had the courage to lA'dce his means at the 

 disposal of two almost unknown young men." Their pro.spiH-tus 

 appearing with the first num])er in April, 1847, is signed: Dr. Rudolf 

 Virchow, Prosektor V)eim Gharite-Krankenhause, Dr. Benno Rein- 

 hardt, Practischer Av/A. 



A shoi't notice by (ir. Rcinicr (hited Berlin, April (l, 1847, fixes the 

 price of the Aolume of three numl)ers at threes Cxerman dollars, 'i'iiis 

 journal has now reached 170 volumes. The first volume, of whose 



'^'F()rii'i)'s Nt'uo Notizen. No. 780. Noveinl)er, 1845. l\(>i>rintc(l in Vircliow'^t 

 Gcsainnu'lte Ahliandhiniicn zur wissenschaftlichi'ii Medizin. Frankfurt a. M., 1856, 

 pp. 149-1();5. 



''Arcliiv, vul. I, |.. r,41. 



'Ari'liiv, vhI. 1(10, p. 2. 



