Morceaux Choisis

1. John Black. retired consultant paediatrician, Framlingham, Suffolk

1. dorothyblacksuffolkonline.net

In my last year at Cambridge I read physiology, and as a consequence Claude Bernard became one of my heroes. Bernard (1813-78) studied in Paris under the physiologist François Magendie. When he was starting out on his career vitalism was still in vogue: the belief that biological phenomena were governed by ill defined forces. Bernard showed that physiology was a science in which experiments could produce well defined and reproducible results. His most famous work was on the glycogenic function of the liver, …

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