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Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle was a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument for the germ theory of disease. He was an important figure in the development of modern medicine. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. July 1809 – 13. May 1885
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“The day of the last hypothesis would be also the day of the last observation… An hypothesis displaced by new facts dies an honorable death. If it has itself summoned to its trial the facts by which it is annihilated, it deserves even a monument of gratitude.”

Jacob Henle

Handbook of Rational Pathology, 1846-1853

Death , Gratitude

“Nature answers only when she is questioned.”

Jacob Henle

Quoted in The Conquest of Epidemic Disease, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, 1941.

Question , Nature

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