Cellular Pathology Created

Rudolf Virchow was a student of Muller'. He wrote several papers and a three volume work, Die Krankhaften Geschw Lste, on malignant tumors. He theorized that tumors were the result of chronic irritation and that cancer spread in a manner similar to liquid.1 2

• 1Morton, Leslie T., and Moore, Robert J. A Chronology of Medicine and Related Sciences. Aldershot, England: Scholar Press, 1997
• 2The American Cancer Society Inc., "The History of Cancer." 25 Mar. 2002. 13-17 Accessed October 2010 [http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerBasics/TheHistoryofCancer/the-history-of-cancer-cancer-causes-theories-throughout-history]