The Discoverer of Leukemia
Rudolf Virchow was one of the two men who first described leukemia in 1845 (the other was John Hughes Bennett, an Englishman who was Professor
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In this respect he quarreled with Bismark, the German Chancellor. Bismark challenged him to a duel, and being the one who was challenged, Virchow had the choice of weapons. He chose sausages.
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I came across this fascinating fact and the mind's picture of two
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Bismark withdrew his challenge.
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LINK: http://mutated-unmuated.blogspot.com/2007/09/discoverer-of-leukemia.html
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