The German physician Karl von Rokitansky (1804-1878) was one of the earliest proponents of using pathological anatomy and autopsy studies to leam clinical medicine. As head of the Pathology Institute at the premiere hospital of Europe, the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna, Rokitansky is reported to have supervised more than 70,000 autopsies and performed more than 30,000 on his own - a seemingly implausible feat of labor that yet appears to be true. In his time he was widely considered the most...
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