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mous Institute of Pathology, which has been the Mecca 

 of all students of pathology ever since. He did a host 

 of other notable things as well, among others, entering 

 the field of politics, and becoming a recognized leader 

 there no less than in science. Indeed, it seemed dur- 

 ing the later decades of his life as if one encountered 

 Virchow in whatever direction one turned in Berlin, 

 and one feels that it was not without reason that his 

 compatriots spoke of him as "the man who knows 

 everything." To the end he retained all the alertness 

 of intellect and the energy of body that had made him 

 what he was. One found him at an early hour in the 

 morning attending to the routine of his hospital duties, 

 his lectures, and clinical demonstrations. These fin- 

 ished, he rushed off, perhaps to his parliamentary 

 duties ; thence to a meeting of the Academy of Sciences, 

 or to preside at the Academy of Medicine or at some 

 other scientific gathering. And in intervals of these 

 diversified pursuits he was besieged ever by a frost of 

 private callers, who sought his opinion, his advice, his 

 influence in some matter of practical politics, of state- 

 craft, or of science, or who, perhaps, had merely come 

 the length of the continent that they might grasp the 

 hand of the "father of pathology." 



In whatever capacity one sought him out, provided 

 the seeking were not too presumptuous, one was sure to 

 find the great savant approachable, courteous, even 

 cordial. A man of multifarious affairs, he impressed 

 one as having abundance of time for them all, and to 

 spare. There is a leisureliness about the seeming 

 habit of existence on the Continent that does not per- 

 tain in America, and one felt the flavor of it quite as 



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