VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902)

1845 CE

#3062

Weisses Blut.

Only six weeks after Bennett, Virchow independently published a report on the necropsy of a case of leukemia. He gave the condition its present name. For translation, see Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd. e…

1847 CE

#2296

Die pathologischen Pigmente.

On the origin and chemical composition of extracellular and intracellular pigments, and on the supposed formation of new cells by the membranous envelopment of pigmented blood corpuscles or pigment granules.

1847 CE

#2903

Ueber die acute Entzündung der Arterien.

1847 CE

#2613

Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte des Krebses.

While still a young man Virchow founded the above journal. He wrote a fine paper on cancer and suggested that the exciting cause is local irritation.

1848 CE

#12083

Mittheilungen über die in Oberschlesien herrschende Typhus-Epidemie.

Virchow was one of the first to identify medicine as a social science. He developed a theory of epidemics that emphasized the social circumstances permitting spread of illness. This approach has been called sociologic…

1854 CE

#1268

Ueber eine im Gehirn und Rückenmark des Menschen aufgefundene Substanz mit der chemischen Reaction der Cellulose.

Discovery of the neuroglia.

1856 CE

#3169

Beiträge zur Lehre von den beim Menschen vorkommenden pflanzlichen Parasiten.

First description of pulmonary aspergillosis.

1856 CE

#3006

Thrombose und Embolie. Gefässentzündung und septische Infektion. In his Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur wissenschaftlichen Medicin.

Reprints of papers published between 1846 and 1853. Virchow gave the first clear description of thrombosis and embolism (see especially Beitr. exp. Path.,1846, 2,227-380). This work was translated into English by A. C…

1856 CE

#3064

Ueber farblose Blutkörperchen und Leukämie. In his Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur wissenschaftlichen Medicin, pp. 147-218.

Includes his paper on “weisses Blut” (see No. 3062) and three later papers on leukemia. See No. 3006.

1857 CE

#13248

Untersuchungen uber die Entwickelung des Schädelgrundes im gesunden und krankhaften Zustande und über Einfluss derselben auf Schädelform, Gesichtsbildung und Gehirnbau.

In his Investigations on the development of the base of the skull in healthy and diseased conditions, and on the influence of the same upon skull form, facial structure and brain formation Virchow laid the foundation …

1858 CE

#2299

Die Cellularpathologie in ihrer Begründung auf physiologische und pathologische Gewebelehre.

Virchow was the greatest figure in the history of pathology. His best work, Die Cellularpathologie, is one of the most important books in the history of medicine and the foundation stone of cellular pathology. The Eng…

1858 CE

#2385

Ueber die Natur der constitutionell-syphilitischen Affectionen.

Virchow’s great work on the pathology of syphilis confirmed the fact that it was a disease which involved all organs and tissues of the body and showed that the causal organism was transferred through the blood …

1863 CE–1867 CE

#2617

Die krankhaften Geschwülste. Vol. 1-3, Heft 1.

Although tumours were perhaps his greatest interest, Virchow never completed this work which was intended to have 30 lectures. Instead he stopped with the 25th lecture, on carcinoma, probably because of the vigorous a…

1868 CE

#5376

Ueber den Hungertyphus und einige verwandte Krankheitsformen.

Virchow was instrumental in introducing into Germany an epidemiology based on the study of multiple factors – sociological as well as bacteriological. In the above report on the reappearance of typhus in Berlin …

1868 CE

#1616

Ueber die Canalisation von Berlin.

Virchow advocated a canal sewer system for Berlin. Such a system was constructed by Hobrecht. See No. 1624.

1869 CE

#1617

Ueber gewisse, die Gesundheit benachtheiligende Einflüsse der Schulen.

Improvements in school hygiene and the regular inspection of school children were brought about by the efforts of Virchow. English translation, New York, 1871. Virchow’s papers on public health were collected, a…

1871 CE

#2172

Ueber Lazarette und Barracken.

On the best way of setting up military hospitals to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. For English translation see No. 1617 (note).

1876 CE

#2304

Die Sections-Technik im Leichenhause des Charité-Krankenhauses.

On the technique of dissection. English translation, London, 1876.

1877 CE

#176

Beiträge zur physischen Anthropologie der Deutschen. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Friesen.

Virchow made an important survey of the physical characters of the German people. Outside pathology of which he was the Master, Virchow’s greatest scientific interest was anthropology.

1879 CE

#12084

Gesammelte Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der öffentlichen Medicin und der Seuchenlehre. 2 vols.

Virchow "articulated that the moral goal of the political role of medicine was to become an active agent in eliminating social inequality" (Dorothy Porter, Doctors, the state and the ethics of political medical practi…

1892 CE

#203.5

Crania ethnica Americana. Sammlung auserlesener Amerikanischer Schädeltypen. Herausgegeben von R. Virchow.

1898 CE

#6397

Die neueren Fortschritte in der Wissenschaft und ihr Einfluss auf Medicin und Chirurgie.

English translation in Disease, life and man. Selected essays by Rudolf Virchow. Selected, translated, annotated, and introduced by L. J. Rather, Stanford, 1958.

1990 CE

#11199

A commentary on the medical writings of Rudolf Virchow by L. J. Rather.

An extensively annotated bibliography of all of Virchow's medical writings, but not including his many contributions to anthropology

1992 CE

#11406

Rudolf Virchow Sämtliche Werke. Herausgegeben von Christian Andree. 71 vols. anticipated.

From the number of volumes planned we may conclude that Virchow was one of the most prolific of all physicians. According to the Wikipedia article on Christian Andree, to which I have linked, volumes in this set were …