 Virchow made himself known as a pronounced democrat in the year of revolutions in Germany (1848).His political views are evident in his "Report on the Typhus Outbreak of Upper Silesia", where he states that the outbreak could not be solved by treating individual patients with drugs or with minor changes in food, housing, or clothing laws, but only through radical action to promote the advancement of an entire population, which could only be achieved by "full and unlimited democracy" and "education, freedom and prosperity".These radical statements and his minor part in the revolution caused the government to remove him from his position in 1849, although within a year he was reinstated as prosector 'on probation'.