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  1. 1821-1902. German pathologist, the founder of
  2. cellular pathology. Virchow was the first to
  3. describe leukaemia (cancer of the blood). In
  4. his book Die Cellulare Pathologie/Cellular
  5. Pathology 1858, he proposed that disease is
  6. not due to sudden invasions or changes, but
  7. to slow processes in which normal cells give
  8. rise to abnormal ones.
  9.