HCISPP · Question #192
Who believed that the only was to understand a disease was to examine the cells of the affected body?
The correct answer is D. Virchow. Rudolf Virchow founded the field of cellular pathology, arguing that disease originates at the cellular level and that physicians must examine affected cells microscopically to truly understand illness - a revolutionary idea in 19th-century medicine captured in his landmark…
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Who believed that the only was to understand a disease was to examine the cells of the affected body?
Options
- ALister
- BFlemming
- CKoch
- DVirchow
How the community answered
(25 responses)- A4% (1)
- C4% (1)
- D92% (23)
Explanation
Rudolf Virchow founded the field of cellular pathology, arguing that disease originates at the cellular level and that physicians must examine affected cells microscopically to truly understand illness - a revolutionary idea in 19th-century medicine captured in his landmark work Cellularpathologie (1858).
Why the distractors are wrong:
- Lister (A) pioneered antiseptic surgical techniques using carbolic acid - his focus was preventing infection during surgery, not cellular analysis.
- Fleming (B) discovered penicillin by observing mold killing bacteria - his contribution was to antibiotics, not cellular disease theory.
- Koch (C) developed the famous postulates for linking specific bacteria to specific diseases - his lens was microbial, not cellular.
Memory tip: Think Virchow = View the cells. He's the one who said you must look inside the cell to understand disease - "Vir-cell-ow" links his name to cellular pathology.
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