Johann Conrad Wepfer
Johann Conrad Wepfer
1657-1711
German physician who advanced the emerging science of pathology, the study of the cause and nature of diseases. Wepfer perfected the observation of a patient's case history and studied the progression of each disease; he related these observations with findings from the autopsies.
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