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Also Known As pathological physiology • pathophysiology

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

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