[The Malady of Emperor Frederick III. and Virchow's diagnostic role].
Crownprince Frederick Wilhelm of Prussia was once the hope of the liberal movement in Germany. He embodied and lived a humanistic ideal based on the spirit of the enlightenment. Starting in January 1887 the passionate pipe smoker suffered on an unusual long hoarseness. A polyp of the vocal cord was diagnosed. Although this diagnosis seemed harmless, an odyssee was launched that made history. Rudolf Virchow-the foremost pathologist of that time-was involved in the following histological diagnosis. His role and that of the sprouting histopathology will be presented in this essay.
Universitätsinstitut für Pathologie, Universitätsklinikum St. Pölten, Propst Führer Str. 4, 3100, St. Pölten, Österreich, roland.sedivy@stpoelten.lknoe.at.
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