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Origin Pathological anatomy from Morgagni's 1761 De Sedibus et Causis Morborum; cellular pathology from Virchow's 1858 Die Cellularpathologie; the College of American Pathologists was founded in Chicago on 12 to 13 December 1946.

The specialty concerned with the study of disease through examination of tissues, cells and body fluids, forming the diagnostic basis for most of modern medicine. The discipline has two foundational milestones: the establishment of pathological anatomy, correlating symptoms in life with findings at autopsy, by Giovanni Battista Morgagni in 1761, and the establishment of cellular pathology, disease understood at the level of the cell, by Rudolf Virchow in 1858. In the United States pathology was recognized as the practice of medicine by the American Medical Association around 1943, and pathologists organized their own professional body in 1946.

Facts
Origin Period
Pathological anatomy from Morgagni's 1761 De Sedibus et Causis Morborum; cellular pathology from Virchow's 1858 Die Cellularpathologie; the College of American Pathologists was founded in Chicago on 12 to 13 December 1946. 2
Classification
Type/Classification
Diagnostic Specialty 1
Pathology
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FAQs

When did pathologists form their own professional body?

In 1946, with the College of American Pathologists.

The College of American Pathologists was formed at an organizational meeting in Chicago on December 12 and 13, 1946. This followed the recognition of pathology as the practice of medicine by the American Medical Association around 1943.
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Associated With

Biopsy, Treatments

Biopsy specimens are examined by the specialty of pathology to reach a diagnosis.

Cancer, Conditions

Virchow's cellular pathology established the modern framework for diagnosing cancer as a disease of cells, distinguishing cancer cells from normal cells under the microscope.

Source Rudolph Virchow, the father of cellular pathology
Germ Theory of Disease, Discoveries

Virchow's cellular pathology and germ theory are parallel, complementary nineteenth-century frameworks for understanding disease causation.

Source Rudolph Virchow, the father of cellular pathology
Oncology, Medical Specialties

Pathologists diagnose and classify cancers for oncologists

Notable Specialists

Source Adolf Weil (physician) (Wikipedia)
Source Andreas Röschlaub (source article)
Source Anton Weichselbaum (source article)
Source Arthur Purdy Stout (source article)

Specialty named in the source.

Source Benno Reinhardt (Wikipedia)
Source Bernhard Naunyn (Wikipedia)
Source Carl Arnold Ruge (Wikipedia)
Carl Benda, Healers
Source Carl Benda (Wikipedia)
Source Carl Ernst Bock (source article)
Source Christian Friedrich Ludwig (source article)
Source Christian Georg Schmorl (Wikipedia)
Source Christian Gottlieb Ludwig (Wikipedia)
Source Curt Schimmelbusch (Wikipedia)
Source Dorothy Reed Mendenhall (Wikipedia)
Source Edgar von Gierke (Wikipedia)
Edwin Klebs, Healers
Source Edwin Klebs (Wikipedia)
Source Felix Jacob Marchand (source article)
Source Friedrich Albert von Zenker (source article)
Source Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (Wikipedia)
Source Friedrich Sigmund Merkel (Wikipedia)
Source Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (Wikipedia)
Source Friedrich Wegener (Wikipedia)

George Papanicolaou was a cytopathologist who developed the Pap smear.

Hans Kundrat, Healers
Source Hans Kundrat (Wikipedia)
Source Hermann Lebert (Deutsche Biographie)
Source Hieronymus David Gaubius (Wikipedia)
Source Hinrich Bitter-Suermann (source article)
Howard Florey, Healers

Howard Florey was a pathologist who led the development of penicillin into a usable drug.

Source Jack Kevorkian (Wikipedia)
James Paget, Healers
Source James Paget (Wikipedia)
Source John Burdon-Sanderson (Wikipedia)
Source Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (Wikipedia)
Source Karl Ewald Hasse (Wikipedia)
Source Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio (Wikipedia article)
Source Karl Otto Weber (Wikipedia)
Source Ludwig Aschoff (Wikipedia)
Source Ludwig Traube (physician) (Wikipedia)
Source Marco Fraccaro (ESHG Genetics and Medicine Historical Network)
Maud Menten, Healers
Source Maud Menten (Wikipedia)
Max Askanazy, Healers
Source Max Askanazy (Wikipedia)
Source Morris Simmonds (Wikipedia)
Source Nikolaus Friedreich (Wikipedia)
Source Otmar Wiestler (Wikipedia)
Source Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (Wikipedia)
Paul Grawitz, Healers
Source Paul Grawitz (source article)
Source Paul Langerhans (Wikipedia)
Source Richard Altmann (Wikipedia)
Robin Warren, Healers
Source Robin Warren (Wikipedia)
Source Theodor Langhans (Wikipedia)
Walter Pagel, Healers
Source Walter Pagel (Wikipedia)

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Sources
1. Wikipedia
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundation
2. Historical Timeline (College of American Pathologists)
College of American Pathologistscap.org Historical Timeline, 1946 entry
Quote, cap.org Historical Timeline, 1946 entry
College of American Pathologists (CAP) formed at organizational meeting in Chicago, December 12 and 13, 1946.
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The Work That Laid the Foundation for Modern Anatomical Pathology
Health Sciences Library System, University of PittsburghFalk Library rare book feature, Treasures from the Rare Book Room, para. 2 of 3
Quote, Falk Library rare book feature, Treasures from the Rare Book Room, para. 2 of 3
It was the author who introduced the concept that diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease must be based on an exact understanding of the pathologic changes in the anatomic structures.
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Pathology (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathology, lead paragraph
Quote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathology, lead paragraph
Pathology is a significant field in modern medical diagnosis and medical research.
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Rudolph Virchow, the father of cellular pathology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Associated With: Germ Theory of Disease
  • Associated With: Cancer
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Robin Warren (Wikipedia)
WikipediaNotable Specialists: Robin WarrenView the Source
Maud Menten (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Maud Menten, Lead paragraph
Quote, Notable Specialists: Maud Menten, Lead paragraph
was the head of pathology at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
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Xavier Bichat (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Xavier Bichat, Lead sentence
Quote, Notable Specialists: Xavier Bichat, Lead sentence
was a French anatomist and pathologist
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Paul Langerhans (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Paul Langerhans, Lead sentence
Quote, Notable Specialists: Paul Langerhans, Lead sentence
was a German pathologist, physiologist and biologist
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Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Lead and career sections [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Lead and career sections [specialist-in]
was a German pathologist
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Friedrich Wegener (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Friedrich Wegener, Lead paragraph
Quote, Notable Specialists: Friedrich Wegener, Lead paragraph
was a German pathologist
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John Burdon-Sanderson (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: John Burdon-Sanderson, Lead and biography [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: John Burdon-Sanderson, Lead and biography [specialist-in]
the services he had rendered to physiology and pathology
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James Paget (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: James Paget, Lead and biography [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: James Paget, Lead and biography [specialist-in]
was an English surgeon and pathologist
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Nikolaus Friedreich (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Nikolaus Friedreich, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Nikolaus Friedreich, Lead
was a German pathologist and neurologist
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Ludwig Aschoff (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Ludwig Aschoff, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Ludwig Aschoff, Lead
was a German physician and pathologist
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Richard Altmann (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Richard Altmann, Lead sentence of the English Wikipedia article [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Richard Altmann, Lead sentence of the English Wikipedia article [in-group]
was a German pathologist and histologist from Deutsch Eylau in the Province of Prussia
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Marco Fraccaro (ESHG Genetics and Medicine Historical Network)
Notable Specialists: Marco Fraccaro, PDF page 2, Biography [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Marco Fraccaro, PDF page 2, Biography [specialist-in]
he specialised in Pathology
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Edwin Klebs (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Edwin Klebs, Lead [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Edwin Klebs, Lead [specialist-in]
professor of pathology at the University of Bern
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Jack Kevorkian (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Jack Kevorkian, Lead [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Jack Kevorkian, Lead [in-group]
was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent
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Friedrich Sigmund Merkel (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Friedrich Sigmund Merkel, Lead text
Quote, Notable Specialists: Friedrich Sigmund Merkel, Lead text
German anatomist and histopathologist
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Carl Benda (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Carl Benda, Lead and body
Quote, Notable Specialists: Carl Benda, Lead and body
From 1908 to 1925 at the Institute of Pathology Krankenhaus Moabit.
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Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Paul Clemens von Baumgarten, Lead and biography [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Paul Clemens von Baumgarten, Lead and biography [specialist-in]
was a German pathologist
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Ludwig Traube (physician) (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Ludwig Traube (physician), Article text
Quote, Notable Specialists: Ludwig Traube (physician), Article text
co-founder of the experimental pathology in Germany
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Adolf Weil (physician) (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Adolf Weil (physician), Article text [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Adolf Weil (physician), Article text [specialist-in]
professor of special pathology and therapy
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Curt Schimmelbusch (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Curt Schimmelbusch, Lead [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Curt Schimmelbusch, Lead [specialist-in]
was a German physician and pathologist
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Bernhard Naunyn (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Bernhard Naunyn, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Bernhard Naunyn, Lead
Bernhard Naunyn (2 September 1839-26 July 1925) was a German pathologist, born in Berlin.
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Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, Lead [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, Lead [in-group]
was a German-Jewish pathologist.
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Walter Pagel (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Walter Pagel, Lead [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Walter Pagel, Lead [in-group]
was a German pathologist and medical historian.
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Christian Georg Schmorl (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Christian Georg Schmorl, Lead [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Christian Georg Schmorl, Lead [in-group]
was a German pathologist who was a native of Mügeln in the Kingdom of Saxony.
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Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, Lead [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, Lead [in-group]
was a German pathologist born in Aurich.
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Hieronymus David Gaubius (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Hieronymus David Gaubius, Works, Institutiones Pathologiae medicinalis
Quote, Notable Specialists: Hieronymus David Gaubius, Works, Institutiones Pathologiae medicinalis
Institutiones Pathologiae medicinalis, a 1758 textbook on systematic pathology that remained popular for many years
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Christian Gottlieb Ludwig (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Christian Gottlieb Ludwig, Biography, Leipzig professorships
Quote, Notable Specialists: Christian Gottlieb Ludwig, Biography, Leipzig professorships
he successively became a full professor of medicine (1747), pathology (1755), and therapy (1758)
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Paul Grawitz (source article)
Notable Specialists: Paul Grawitz, Lead sentence [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Paul Grawitz, Lead sentence [in-group]
was a German pathologist
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Hermann Lebert (Deutsche Biographie)
Notable Specialists: Hermann Lebert, ADB 18 (1883), Lebert, Herrmann, Biographie [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Hermann Lebert, ADB 18 (1883), Lebert, Herrmann, Biographie [specialist-in]
Er war einer der ersten, die nach dem Vorgange Müller's das Mikroskop für die pathologisch-anatomische Forschung verwerthet hatten
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Friedrich Albert von Zenker (source article)
Notable Specialists: Friedrich Albert von Zenker, Lead paragraph
Quote, Notable Specialists: Friedrich Albert von Zenker, Lead paragraph
13 June 1898) was a German pathologist and physician, celebrated for his discovery of trichinosis.
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Karl Otto Weber (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Karl Otto Weber, Lead [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Karl Otto Weber, Lead [specialist-in]
was a German surgeon and pathologist born in Frankfurt am Main
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Christian Friedrich Ludwig (source article)
Notable Specialists: Christian Friedrich Ludwig, Lead and biography text
Quote, Notable Specialists: Christian Friedrich Ludwig, Lead and biography text
In 1796 he was named a full professor of pathology
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Edgar von Gierke (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Edgar von Gierke, Lead sentence [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Edgar von Gierke, Lead sentence [in-group]
was a German Jewish pathologist who specialized in glycogenesis and discovered glycogen storage disease type I
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Morris Simmonds (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Morris Simmonds, Lead sentence
Quote, Notable Specialists: Morris Simmonds, Lead sentence
was a German physician and pathologist
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Theodor Langhans (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Theodor Langhans, Career paragraph
Quote, Notable Specialists: Theodor Langhans, Career paragraph
was a professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Bern
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Otmar Wiestler (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Otmar Wiestler, Lead paragraph, specialty
Quote, Notable Specialists: Otmar Wiestler, Lead paragraph, specialty
full professor and chair for Neuropathology
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Felix Jacob Marchand (source article)
Notable Specialists: Felix Jacob Marchand, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Felix Jacob Marchand, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
was a German pathologist born in Halle an der Saale
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Hinrich Bitter-Suermann (source article)
Notable Specialists: Hinrich Bitter-Suermann, Lead paragraph
Quote, Notable Specialists: Hinrich Bitter-Suermann, Lead paragraph
Hinrich Bitter-Suermann (born March 10, 1940) is a German-Canadian pathologist and professor of surgery specialized in organ transplantation.
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Andreas Röschlaub (source article)
Notable Specialists: Andreas Röschlaub, Introduction
Quote, Notable Specialists: Andreas Röschlaub, Introduction
he became a full professor of pathology at the University of Bamberg
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Benno Reinhardt (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Benno Reinhardt, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Benno Reinhardt, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
Benno Reinhardt specialized in the field of pathological anatomy.
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Carl Ernst Bock (source article)
Notable Specialists: Carl Ernst Bock, Lead paragraph 2
Quote, Notable Specialists: Carl Ernst Bock, Lead paragraph 2
In 1839 he was appointed extraordinary professor of pathological anatomy
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Carl Arnold Ruge (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Carl Arnold Ruge, Article text
Quote, Notable Specialists: Carl Arnold Ruge, Article text
was a German pathologist who was a native of Berlin
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Arthur Purdy Stout (source article)
Notable Specialists: Arthur Purdy Stout, Article text
Quote, Notable Specialists: Arthur Purdy Stout, Article text
he acquired a special expertise in tumor pathology
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Karl Ewald Hasse (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Karl Ewald Hasse, Article text, work and posts
Quote, Notable Specialists: Karl Ewald Hasse, Article text, work and posts
In 1852 he was appointed professor of special pathology at the medical clinic of the University of Heidelberg
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Max Askanazy (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Max Askanazy, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Max Askanazy, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
was a German-Swiss pathologist
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Dorothy Reed Mendenhall (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, Lead [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, Lead [specialist-in]
a prominent pediatric physician specializing in cellular pathology
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Hans Kundrat (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Hans Kundrat, Lead sentence [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Hans Kundrat, Lead sentence [specialist-in]
was a pathologist born in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
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Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio (Wikipedia article)
Notable Specialists: Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio, Lead sentence
Quote, Notable Specialists: Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio, Lead sentence
Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio (27 May 1851, Reval, 26 February 1927) was a Baltic German internist and professor of pathology.
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Anton Weichselbaum (source article)
Notable Specialists: Anton Weichselbaum, Lead [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Anton Weichselbaum, Lead [in-group]
was an Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist
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