KAISER AND VIRCHOW.
REFUSAL TO PERMIT' ERECTION OF STATUE. (Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.y (Received April 13, 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN, April 12. The Kaiser refused permission to erect a statue of Virchow. Residents of Berlin are greatly Annoyed. . Rudolf Virchow for a long time led the Radical party m the Prussian Cham, ber of Deputies, and was a constant opposer of Prince Bismarck. He was an anthropologist, V pathologist, and 'politician, a native of Pomerania. He wati appointed prosecxitor to the University of Bex-lin m. 1847, and the same year was sent by the Government to investi- ■:, gate, typhus fever m , Silesia. His butspoken report caused /a. good : deal of official disquiet, and his democratic creed brought about the loss of his ' uniyersity appointment. There was no department of . medicine on which he did not speak . learnedly, and he was ( the first to apply the cell theory to the consideration of diseased tissues.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 13 April 1908, Page 5
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