If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of wisdom combined with knowledge in the field of medicine.
Rudolf Virchow suggests that if medical practitioners were able to impart not only knowledge but also wisdom to the public, it would enhance the overall health and well-being of society. This highlights the idea that scientific knowledge should be coupled with practical wisdom to better serve patients and promote a healthier community, thus supporting the role of qualified physicians.
In practice
In a health seminar to emphasize the importance of understanding health as more than just facts.
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.
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