A HISTORY OF SCIENCE 



much in the presence of this great worker as among 

 those people who from our stand -point seem never 

 really to work at all. This is to a certain extent ex- 

 plained if one visited Virchow in his home, and found 

 to his astonishment that the world - renowned physi- 

 cian, statesman, pathologist, anthropologist was dom- 

 iciled in a little apartment of the most modest equip- 

 ment, up two flights, in a house of most unpretentious 

 character. Everything was entirely respectable, alto- 

 gether comfortable, to be sure; but it was a grade of 

 living which a man of corresponding position in Amer- 

 ica could not hold to without finding himself quite out 

 of step with his confreres and the subject of endless 

 comment. But in this city of universal apartment- 

 house occupancy and relatively low average of display 

 in living it is quite otherwise. Virchow lived on the 

 same plane, generally speaking, with the other scien- 

 tists of Europe; it is only from the American stand- 

 point that there is any seeming disparity between his 

 fame and his material station in life; nor do I claim 

 this as a merit of the American stand-point. 



Be that as it may, however, our present concern 

 lies not with these matters, but with Virchow the 

 pathologist and teacher. To see the great scientist 

 at his best in this role, it was necessary to visit the 

 Institute of Pathology on a Thursday morning at the 

 hour of nine. On the morning of our visit we found 

 the students already assembled and gathered in clus- 

 ters all about the room, examining specimens of morbid 

 anatomy, under guidance of various laboratory assist- 

 ants. This was to give them a general familiarity with 

 the appearances of the disease-products that would be 



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