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With the victory of solidistic pathology, however, there has now arrived, pari passu, in the teaching hospitals a solidistic and cellular therapy of which one cannot speak so highly as in the case of the cellular pathology.

Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture 1967

Since earliest times, in that sphere of medicine which is responsible for the analysis of the symptoms of disease, their cause and natural or artificially induced conquest, namely pathology, humoral and solidistic pathologists have been in opposition to one another.

Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture 1967

As you know, this aspect of solidistic therapy has vanished from medicine since Lister, with epoch-making success, laid down the principle, which he taught us to follow down to the smallest detail: "Keep fingers away from wounds, leave the cells as much as possible undisturbed, but take care that noxious agents from outside are kept away from wounds and cells".

Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture 1967

In internal medicine, however, solidistic therapy remained "faute de mieux".

Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture 1967

In the treatment of wounds, solidistic trend in therapy expressed itself more in salves, balsams, alteratives, which were supposed to influence the diseased body elements in ill-looking wounds to new and different activity.

Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture 1967

Virchow has given to the solidistic pathology by the foundation of cellular pathology is now so firmly established that the old humoral pathology can probably be regarded as having been finally laid to rest.

Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture 1967

In this sense, there can, in fact, only be solidistic pathology or cellular pathology, and never humoral pathology since, indeed the lifeless, inert body fluids cannot be attacked by any or illness.

Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture 1967

In the last century the solidistic pathologists won the upper hand and the form which

Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture 1967

I maintain that we were all reared in the solidistic - and cellular-therapy dogma according to which the morbid manifestations of life are and must remain the subject of internal therapy.

Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture 1967