"Mass disease means society is out of joint."
— Rudolf Virchow

January 1, 1970

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1848 Report on the typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia. Quoted in: Rudolf Virchow: Collected Essays on Public Health and Epidemiology, edited by Rather LJ. Vol 1. Canton, Mass: Science History Publications; 1985:311