An antibody is a protein used by the immune system to identify and neutralise foreign objects like bacteria and viruses. Each antibody recognises a specific antigen unique to its target. Production of antibodies is referred to as the humoral immune system.
Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow was born on October 13, 1821 in the town of Schivelbein, in the German Kingdom of Prussia. Today the town is called Åwidwin and lies in Poland. His father was Carl Christian Siegfried Virchow, a farmer, and town treasurer of Schivelbein; his mother was Johanna Maria Hesse.
(1821-1902).One of the most prominent physicians of the 19th century, German scientist and statesman Rudolf Virchow pioneered the modern concept of the pathological processes of disease. He emphasized that diseases arose, not in organs or tissues in general, but primarily in individual cells.