RUDOLl'H VIRCHOW, 1821-lJt()li. 859 



hi.s place as an educator, the more be achieved cosmopolitan greatness. 

 At this time when hehae but just ceased his heretofore unbroken lal)ors 

 it can not yet be appreciated how great he had ])econie and how much 

 science lost by his death. 



In this short sketch only the main points can l)e indicated; a later 

 time must furnish the historian who shall truly interpret Rudolf Vir- 

 chow and his epoch. Then, when all the dociunentary material now 

 scattered in contemporary periodicals and in correspondence and 

 notices throughout the world is brought together, an adcMpiate view 

 can ])c taken of the s[)lendid comliination of human tjualities which 

 made the foundation of Rudolf Mrchow's greatness." 



His spirit will ever reside in the fundamental revolution which he 

 brought about in medical science^ and ])i'actice, and his work will go on 

 in the new paths he opened in all departments of science which he 

 entered, and in the methods of investigation which he so unweariedly 

 taught. Herein rests the tradition which remains with his disciples, 

 and this is their weapon to use for the full freedom of learning and 

 objective teaching. 



« See O. Israel, "Zii Rudolf Virchuw's Achtzigstem Gelnirtetage," Arztliche Mo- 

 uatschrift, 1901, heft 10. 



