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Also Known As pathological physiology • pathophysiology

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Key People

Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German scientist
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
Peter C. Doherty
Australian scientist
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Rolf M. Zinkernagel.
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss scientist
Elizabeth Stern
Canadian pathologist
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
Smith, Theobald
Theobald Smith
American pathologist
Miroslav Holub
Czech poet, pathologist and immunologist
Eugene Lindsay Opie
American pathologist
Robin Warren
Australian pathologist
Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle
German pathologist
Rokitansky, detail of an engraving
Karl, baron von Rokitansky
Austrian pathologist
William Henry Welch
American physician
Eijkman
Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician
Fibiger
Johannes Fibiger
Danish pathologist
William Prout
British chemist

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