From @pathologeek Pioneers in Pathology: Poland 🇵🇱 Today we would like to honor some of the invaluable contributions made by Polish pathologists and some true pioneers in the field. We would like to thank @robwanat for suggesting the topic, as he rightly points out that some might argue that they were German or Russian but the soil they walked on was Polish. Although in some cases their country was part of Prussia or Russia at the time, they were Polish, and they made seminal contributions which lay the foundation for modern pathology. 🔬 Maria Magdalena Dąbska (1921 – 2014) was a Polish pathologist and oncologist. She specialized in diagnosing neoplasms by combining the microscopic findings with the clinical picture. Today we refer to this process as surgical pathology, but it was initially called pathomorphology or clinicopathology. The Dąbska tumor (1969) is a cutaneous tumor named in her honor. 🔬 Rudolf Virchow (1821 – 1902) was an eminent pathologist and politician of his time born in Schivelbein, Pomerania, Prussia which is now Świdwin, Poland. Virchow was widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential physicians in history. Virchow analyzed the effects of disease in various organs and tissues of the human body, and he identified that diseases are caused by malfunctioning cells. He is regarded as a founding father of both pathology and social medicine. 🔬 Robert Remak (1815–1865) was an outstanding histologist, embryologist, physiologist, and neurologist that was also born in former Prussia, now Poznań Poland. He discovered that cells originate by the division of pre-existing cells. According to the historian Paul Weindling, Rudolf Virchow plagiarized the idea that all cells come from pre-existing cells from Remak. He is also known for reducing Karl Ernst von Baer's four germ layers to the three we know today: the ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm. #pathologeek https://www.instagram.com/p/CfWnHl1j7rquPYkd_VBjm1Ynhd0zyABI7uu30s0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
