If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of wisdom combined with knowledge in the field of medicine.
Rudolf Virchow suggests that if medical practitioners were able to impart not only knowledge but also wisdom to the public, it would enhance the overall health and well-being of society. This highlights the idea that scientific knowledge should be coupled with practical wisdom to better serve patients and promote a healthier community, thus supporting the role of qualified physicians.
In practice
In a health seminar to emphasize the importance of understanding health as more than just facts.
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?
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Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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